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Word: complicatedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just as serious is the effect--academically--of the 'disintegration' of the Yale community on weekends. "A weekend away from New Haven, with a girl's college or one of its denizens as the magnet in the case, is now a regular occurrence.... The causes of this development are numerous...

Author: By Michael Churchill, | Title: Female Yale: 'Plainly Attractive' | 11/22/1958 | See Source »

Some time, some place in the dark backward and abysm of time, the first "living" thing was created, and evolution began. But even the simplest organism is made up of enormously complicated chemical compounds. How were these compounds produced in the slow aeons of the world's beginnings? Last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Evolution Before Life | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

More complicated words of Ruly English are meant to eliminate confusion caused by differing points of view. Both a watch spring and a heavy bridge girder are flexible in some degree. Both are also somewhat rigid. All objects, in fact, lie somewhere on the scale between extreme flexibility and extreme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ruly English | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

Proteins are enormously complicated molecules, and until Sanger's work on insulin, no one had ever been able to determine the structure of even the simplest of them. Chemists have known for many years that protein molecules are made of amino acids (nitrogen-containing organic acids) strung together in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Nobelmen of 1958 | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

The secret of Elox's success is its complicated electronic controls (using hundreds of condenser tubes) and its ability to tackle new projects. Larkins has kept the company small and flexible by making only the controls, subcontracting the work of making the machines to other companies. Some sell for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDUSTRY: The Electronic Pygmy | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

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