Word: complexity
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Another special feature of Commencement is the ringing of Memorial Church's bells. Although the bells are controlled electronically during the school year, the more complex melodies that accompany the three reunions' memorial services and the processions call for a return to more primitive technology...
...climbers, a motley assembly of shorts and sneakers, knickers and mountain boots, start out with cheerful hearts over a gentle, 5 1/2-mile path through rain forest to Mandara, a "village" of overnight huts. The second day is a more strenuous, 7 1/2-mile upward trudge through moorland to the Horombo complex of huts. Both sites were developed by the Norwegians as an aid project in the early 1970s. Today they could do with a little redevelopment...
...gone largely unopposed, even when it has demolished rich portions of the city's heritage. But for the past few weeks all of London has been in an uproar over the scheduled destruction of two of the city's recently discovered archaeological treasures: the ruins of a Roman bath complex that dates back 2,000 years and the underground remains of the Rose, the Elizabethan theater where Shakespeare may have premiered Titus Andronicus and Henry VI and even trod the stage...
Londoners have feared that the same fate would befall the two newest finds. The remains of the Rose were unexpectedly discovered last February after an office building was demolished on the south bank of the Thames in preparation for the erection of a new nine-story complex. The archaeological team sent to the site knew the area had been the Elizabethan theater district, but no one expected to find vestiges of the Rose, which was built in 1587. The team stumbled onto chalk foundations, sloped mortar flooring and, most astonishingly, the base of the stage 6 ft. below the ground...
...Huggin Hill Baths were designated a protected archaeological site by the government years ago. But in 1988 the Department of the Environment granted a development company permission to build a seven-story office complex on the west end of the ruins. The government believed the site had already been irretrievably damaged by construction in the 1960s. But last January the archaeological team discovered a large room with central heating, vaulted semicircular recesses and a mosaic floor...