Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...admirers say that he understands government better than any man in Washington; that he is not ashamed to admit mistakes; that he has the kind of filing-case mind and grasp of facts needed for the complex job of being President; that he is intellectually honest; that the people will always know exactly where he stands; that he would give the nation a businesslike, energetic and straightforward government...
...Atomic Energy Commission continued experiments with rutin, a complex chemical compound obtained from green buckwheat. In experiments with dogs at the University of Rochester, it reduced the death rate from radiation from 64% to 12% by checking internal bleeding, one of the effects of radiation...
Kupferman's new paintings tell very little about their squirmy wet subject matter; they jumble and reassemble it to make complex and technically brilliant designs. The abstractions had started with careful drawings of shells, starfish and seaweed that he and his five-year-old daughter found on the beach at Provincetown. He took to thumbing through scientific books illustrated with diagrams of tentacled polyps, and the nervous systems of sea worms and cross sections of jellyfish, because his wife made him throw out all the sea life he had brought home. "The house smelled like low tide," she complained...
Fortunately, there is machinery provided to circumvent the administrative rigidities. Exceptions can be made to the long-standing rules through a complex system of votes by various committees. A standout player who missed his Yale game because of illness or injury can be awarded his letter. But the machinery is too involved and slow-moving; therefore, it is little used...
...A.A.G.P. started, the delegates picked Louisiana's tall (6 ft. 2 in.), Texas-born Dr. Jason Poland Sanders. Like most Texans, he has no inferiority complex. Says he: "I never feel I have to apologize to any specialist. A man may know brain surgery, but I know more about feeding babies." Back home, Dr. Sanders, a greying 54, hustled to get his state's organization started fast. He knew the family doctor's problems. For 21 years he had been a general practitioner in Caspiana (pop. 265) and in Shreveport, where he runs the Sanders Clinic. Within...