Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...smasher now scheduled, and certainly the biggest. To build it, engineers will drive a tunnel two miles through the solid rock of a minor mountain near Palo Alto. This rocky housing will keep its radiation from frying innocent bystanders. At the accelerator's business end will be a complex knot of laboratory buildings stuffed with futuristic apparatus...
...generator department said that orders thus far this year are almost equal those for all of 1958, while Allis-Chalmers' backlog of unfilled orders has risen 72% since the end of last year, now stands at $225 million, a record peacetime total. Other sectors of the capital-goods complex, such as generator makers, locomotive builders, and construction equipment manufacturers, reported rising new business. Summed up McClure Kelley, president of Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton (machine tools, road-building equipment): "The improvement comes from an across-the-board increase in our regular business and extends to all lines of our business...
...Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology is for so many undergraduates "the place that has the glass flowers." Actually, though, the Peabody doesn't own them at all. Peabody occupies the left hand corner of the red-brick complex that forms the University Museum. The University Museum also contains the Biological Museum also contains the Biological Museum, the Museum of Comparative Zoology and the Minerological Museum, and this has caused all the confusion. It is the Biological Museum that owns the glass flowers...
...next segment of the building was added in 1889 and extended the Museum to within sixty feet of the Geological Museum in Agassiz's complex of scientific collections. Yet Putnam was still pressed for space. In his report to the University in 1898, he complained, "The present halls and cases are overcrowded and many interesting collections have to be kept in drawers or stored in the basement awaiting the completion of the building." It was through his determined efforts that money was raised to build a third part to Peabody, to close the gap and join it with the rest...
...Museum's rarely used study material, is questionable. Though a Permanent Committee on Storage Space carefully weeds out many such useless items, this work requires anthropological research on a truly sweeping scale. The Museum does not have unlimited storage space, and the upkeep of a catalogue is complex and expensive enough to warrant an increase in this editorial winnowing of its collection...