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Word: complexities (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...municipal hovel, a mining town on a vast scale. It gobbled up people the way it gobbled up iron ore-people with the names of Scotland, Ireland, Germany, Poland, Italy, Hungary, Yugoslavia. Some 1,000,000 of them lived and worked in the city's whole industrial complex, some 700,000 lived within the city's limits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PENNSYLVANIA: Mr. Mellon's Patch | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

...complex political and economic uncertainties are being focused not on a program of constructive consideration and remedy but on an essentially negative fear of Communism," President Jordan said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jordan Talks At Radcliffe's 71st Opening | 9/28/1949 | See Source »

Happily, Mr. Evans' operatic tendencies were not in evidence (except in the second play where they were quite in order), and he performed subtlely and sensitively, with his usual technical excellence. His wife, an equally complex but less developed character, was portrayed with understanding by Edna Best. A competent cast supported the stars in both plays...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 9/28/1949 | See Source »

...memory system" capable of storing 64,000 digits and leading a computing machine through a complex mathematical problem of 4000 steps was shown at the unveiling of Harvard University's new Mark III calculating machine September...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Unveils Mark III Calculator; Machine, New, Faster, Goes to Navy | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...means of the "coding box," an operator can feed a problem into Mark III in a fraction of the time required by Mark II and any other calculating machines in use at the present time. Very complex problems that used to take days and weeks to "code" for the machine can now be prepared almost as quickly as an operator can punch the keys...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Unveils Mark III Calculator; Machine, New, Faster, Goes to Navy | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

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