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Word: complexities (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...miscreants must be impressed by the organs of undergraduate opinion that their actions are violently contrary to tradition and that they are viewed in genuine disgust by the undergraduate body. But this is not enough. As a vivid example to those who labor under this rioting complex, recent offenders must be meted strict punishment by the University authorities and by the courts. Finally, the punishment must be known publicly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Miscreants! | 2/17/1931 | See Source »

...rose, told the company this woman had ruined his life, then tried to kill himself with a knife. Economical Poet Alexander Pope kept copies of his love letters. Baudelaire did Pope one better: sent exact duplicates to two women at once. Pierre Loving tries to explain his hero's complex character thus: "Artifice and stoicism, these were the keys to the unassailable life of the Chesterfieldian martyr and saint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Baudelaire with Loving Care* | 2/16/1931 | See Source »

This will be the fourth of the Annual Model Assemblies, and the plans for this year's meetings are more complex than those of any of the past ones. A very successful meeting is expected...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LANGMUIR WILL DISCUSS MODEL ASSEMBLY TODAY | 2/13/1931 | See Source »

...Columbia students appear not to have outgrown the school-boy complex of considering their teachers the authors of all evil. They apparently feel that the successful student is the one who can put one over on the professor. Accordingly, the Spectator, undergraduate daily, has welcomed the news that the test drawn up by Thomas Beer and published in the last issue of Scribners' has proved a sticker to several "supposedly" learned members of the faculty. It states with glee that the highest mark received by any of these men was 55 and that one of the students was able...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ASK ME ANOTHER | 2/6/1931 | See Source »

...complexed" students should get the proper perspective and realize the worthiness of Boston University For Boston University is truly a great in situation and no student need have an inferiority complex because he is a member of the University family Boston University News

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 1/27/1931 | See Source »

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