Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Principally, sex and food. But the Army Quartermaster Corps, which has studied mosquitoes intimately in hopes of crossing soldiers off the mosquito menu, has discovered that the insects are complex psychologically, and react to a long list of stimuli. Last week it released its findings...
...Killers. Hemingway's short story, hopped up with a complex plot of thievery, violence and doublecross (TIME, Sept...
...that year Roscoe Pound, newly appointed Commissioner of Appeals for the Supreme Court of Nebraska, was immersed in straightening out the affairs of a court which had a three years' backlog of work. During the zenith of this activity he wrote as many as 24 lengthy and complex opinions a month...
...Labor Leader Vicente Lombardo Toledano, symbolized an era coming to a close. Under his direction, the ceremonial center of the Mixtecs and Zapotecs at Monte Alban, near Oaxaca, had been excavated. Digging carefully into the 60 square kilometers of overgrown mounds, Dr. Caso's men unearthed a dazzling complex of subtly designed stone tombs and religious buildings. In many they found golden masks and necklaces, carvings of stone and jade which had escaped the greedy Conquistadors...
...unsure were the physicists who described at Princeton the gigantic and complex machines which are being designed and built as tools for atomic research. Nobelman Ernest 0. Lawrence, developer of the cyclotron, was sure that this and other "accelerators" would soon yield flying particles with energies up to one billion volts. (Present top: 100,000,000.) What the particles themselves are and how they behave, neither Lawrence nor anyone else could describe with certainty...