Word: complexity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hitler, who appropriates the democratic idea of self-determination to strengthen a totalitarian regime, really wanted peace he would not insist that so complex a problem as the transfer of Sudetenland be settled in so short a time. He would readily permit calm negotiations to bridge the gap between his "final" memorandum and Benes' "promise...
Last week at a meeting of the Atlantic County Medical Society, 60-year-old Dr. Samuel Stern of Atlantic City announced that he had successfully used a new drug, Arthranol, for the treatment of arthritis. Arthranol is a highly complex salt made from a nitrogen compound, phosphorus and iodine. Since most doctors believe that a focus of bacterial infection is responsible for arthritis they have leaned toward vaccine treatment. Dr. Stern has long held that the most important beneficial elements in a vaccine are the aminoacids produced by bacteria. In hunting for a more potent form of aminoacid...
...Harvard in 1900, became a professor in 1918 after winning the Cross of the Legion of Honor in France. Now head of the department of Mathematics and periodical (average every five years) author, he is one of the best known, mathematicians in the world. After writing on the Complex Domain (1924), he does not find it hard to count his eight children...
...with the study of fluctuating or oscillating motions. Ever since the 18th Century mathematicians have occupied themselves with the hypothetical case of an infinite piece of string. In how many ways could such a string vibrate? Today the problem has taken a more practical turn. Mathematicians want to separate complex waves and oscillations into simpler movements. Chief use for harmonic analysis is study of the problems presented by the whirls and eddies of air around airplane wings. For example, harmonic analysis makes it possible to measure the varying speed at different points in a wind tunnel, to plot these speeds...
...washing dishes, judged Mr. Fuller's proposal that the house be set up by being dropped from a Zeppelin a little visionary. Although it excited less discussion, critics were more impressed by his model bathroom exhibited in Manhattan four months ago, supplanting the present complex arrangement of pipes and drains with a unified, economical design as symmetrical as a piece of metal sculpture...