Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While Berliners were free to make merry all night long in the city's pleasure spots last week because the police had neglected to re-enact the curfew law, Germany's political aspect became even more complex. Observers pondered the following puzzling developments...
Last week the Interstate Commerce Commission made drastic changes in the U. S. railway rate system?a structure as vitally important as it is complex. Two reports, appearing simultaneously, revised the class rates* in the East and in the West, added some $52,000,000 to the future annual revenues of the railroads. The new rates go into effect...
Declared Bernard Edward Sunny, Board Chairman of Illinois' Bell Telephone Co., to the graduating class of Armour Institute of Technology at Chicago: "It's far better for a young man starting out in the world to have an exaggerated ego than an inferiority complex...
William Morton Wheeler: Eminent as zoologist and Dean of the Bussey Institute. Profound student of the social life of insects, who has shown that they also can maintain complex communities without the use of reason...
Ergot is a rust on the heads of rye. Ergot extract is widely used in obstetrics, to cause contraction of the uterus and control uterine bleeding. The physiological action of the extract is not precise, a fault of many drugs of vegetable origin. Their composition is complex and variable. Hence physicians lately have been adopting more controllable products. In obstetrics, pituitary solutions refined from the pituitary glands >of animals are supplanting ergot. But great quantities of fluid extract of ergot are still used. The raw material reaches the U. S. from Russia (and Poland) and Spain (and Portugal...