Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after months of checking the complex and controversial facts & figures of world trade so they could be presented honestly and clearly to U.S. citizens, the Advertising Council's campaign is under way via a series of newspaper and magazine advertisements (the one shown here is titled: Look . . . How Main Street Has Grown!), posters, car cards, billboard sheets, and a campaign guide that has gone out to leading advertisers, ad agencies, leading newspapers, magazines and radio...
When the Labor government could stand it least, the weather joined with a complex group of economic factors to give England its greatest coal shortage in history. While Britain shivered and slowed down to a case of industrial frost-bite, her leaders joined with peace-planners everywhere in speculation over just what was the matter with the British economy. At the heart the problem was the disturbing possibility of the periodic exhaustion of British resources and morale which could affect the economy of all of western Europe...
...complex minuteness of even the smallest portal-to-portal suit is indicated by Judge Picard's opinion in the progenitor of all such suits--the Mount Clemens Pottery Company case. He quotes as an indispensable part of his decision such fascinating statistics as these: mean distance from time clock to the bisque sagger filling department 528 feet; time required to reach Bisque sagger filling department at the determined walking rate of 250 or 275 feet per minute, depending on whether the worker enters from the South or North gate 1.92 minutes; time to grease arms 30 seconds; time to take...
...theory "should express everything in field physics." It should also, he says, reduce Einstein's theory to a special case, just as Einstein's theory reduced Newton's laws of motion. Like all such high-flown scientific theories, Schrödinger's consists of a complex equation expressed in mathematical symbols. To the nonscientific, it looks like incomprehensible doodling (see cut of theory in Schrödinger's own hand...
...classed as specialists-and the specialist class is growing. Only last fortnight, Dean Willard C. Rappleye of Columbia University's School of Medicine predicted that group practice in community hospitals will eventually do away with the independent general practitioner. Said Dr. Rappleye: "Medical knowledge is now so complex . . . that . . . complete medical service can no longer be rendered by an individual physician alone...