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...room of the neighborhood bar. He demanded a sip of beer from each glass. . . . He would go from customer to customer asking for sips and begging for nickels to play Margie in the jukebox (Margie was his mother's name)." His trouble, according to the doctor: an oedipus complex which caused him to imitate his mother. He forgot all about drinking after two months in an institution...
Australians call the bush-haired natives "Abos" or "Boongs"; the complex, almost telepathic process by which they trail missing men is "blacktracking." Soon after U.S. troops arrived, two soldiers took a furlough to go hunting, and got bushed. A tracker turned them up in jig time after 400 white soldiers had scoured the area in vain...
...creditor, it should have collected its interest in the form of an import surplus, were hiked even higher by the Hawley-Smoot rates of 1930. The Ottawa Agreements, raising a tariff wall around the British Commonwealth, the quota systems, the blocked exchanges, the abandonment of gold - these were the complex but natural sequences of U.S. unwillingness to play its part. Long before the League of Nations had shown its inability to keep the peace, the U.S. had kicked away the economic fruits of peace...
...Preliminaries. That the rubber program has come this far is mainly due to the doggedness of Big Bill Jeffers. But that synthetic rubber, an incredibly complex chemical, is today a reality is due to the fact that other men were toiling on rubber long before the Baruch report made U.S. motorists realize the rubber crisis. The experts compressed ten years of normal development into two, created gigantic, intricate plants with almost nothing to go on except small-scale laboratory experiments. This was almost like building a Flying Fortress out of the experience of flying a kite...
Prehensile or Tactile. Dr. Wolff's classification of hands is complex but is based primarily on the use of the hand as a sense organ or as a tool for action. She lists six major types, a dozen combinations. Examples of basic types...