Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Guilt Complex. In Madisonville, Tex., a local cattlemen's association launched a national "corrective campaign," hopefully offered a prize to the child of an out-of-state veteran (trained in Texas) who wrote the best letter on "Why My Daddy Is Wrong About Texas...
Europe's guilt is more complex, more subtly expressed, and more easily abused. Its burden is the burden of Western man's whole failure to make more of his life and his world than he has so far made. It rests with especial weight upon the conscience of Europe, because it is here that Western civilization has come to visible and extreme; catastrophe. Europeans may tell themselves, as they do, that the younger peoples of the American hemisphere share the failure. But it is to European eyes that the ruin of Berlin, the chaste and ordered scars...
Suffering from an inferiority complex after last year's flasco season, primed with the alibi of no outdoor practice, the tennis team sailed into southern waters last week with all the odds against it. Team members hoped to make the four matches close; they didn't expect...
Mechanical miners that do all the work from coal seam to mine car are nothing new. Mining engineers have been trying them with limited success for years. But coal men cheered the vast improvements in this one as the "most serious start" ever made towards simplifying their complex operations...
Over the Hurdle? Both the merged companies, though separately owned, were already controlled by the complex holding company pyramid of the Alexander and Baldwin families. In putting both companies into one corporate pocket, Frank Baldwin had several cogent reasons...