Word: complexity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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inferiority complex. Conscious suffering from an unconscious feeling of unworthiness or guilt...
...Oedipus complex. Freud's term for a male's feeling-started in babyhood -of rivalry with his father, and excessive attachment to his mother. (Oedipus was the Greek hero who unknowingly murdered his father and married his mother...
...explanation of the workings of the University took up the first part of Dean Bender's talk. Harvard's organization, though complex, "has the merit of working," he said, and has kept it going for 300 years, while nations have fallen by the wayside...
...only one consideration in placing his plant. Others were labor, transportation, and markets. Snapped the bank: "The full impact of the change in our economy will not be apparent for some time, and investigators should not be misled by pat arguments which seem to furnish easy answers to complex problems...
...Freeman the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 1934. Lee's Lieutenants, which followed, was an even more impressive achievement, and a complex study of Lee's command problem highlighted by brief, brilliant biographies of his commanders-Jackson, Stuart, Early and Longstreet...