Word: complicatedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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JOB-GRADED LUMBER will help do-it-yourself carpenters select the grades they need. Western lumber mills (which produce about one-third of all U.S. soft wood) plan to abandon the old, complicated system of grading by numbers, will use names instead: construction, standard, utility or economy.
Harrowingly effective at times, A Hatful of Rain yet proves an unsatisfying whole. For one thing, it has too many facets. Besides Johnny's relation to himself and his wife, there is a complicated, rather confusing relationship with his father and brother. There is the moral question of his...
Fuel-injection systems, which may take years to reach all cars, will probably be the last major refinement of the present piston engine. The great change will be the turbine engine. But the first engine will probably not be a true gas turbine. It may well be a "free-piston...
Author Hogben's purpose is not to teach his young readers their algebra, but to show how man built up his world of signs and symbols to solve the problems of his everyday existence and then to expand his civilization. He starts with the sun and the moon, man...
Meanwhile, the case was complicated by another Jewish war orphan: Betty Meljado, whose Protestant foster mother had sent her to a Catholic school, had also disappeared when the authorities sought to transfer her to a Jewish family. In a series of adventures like a Hitchcock movie, she had been seized...