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Chaffee has developed the first satisfactory methods of testing the complex operation of vacuum tubes and thus increasing their efficiency through scientific and mathematical analysis...
...complex game of musical chairs which appointments of U.S. Ambassadors often resemble, only member left standing when the music stopped last week appeared to be Joseph E. Davies, long thought to have an eye on the London job. Back from his post...
...problems of life, and his attitude towards the world is no longer that of a heedless child. For every fundamental obstacle to ultimate happiness he has formed many solutions, most of which are probably wrong, but some of which must contain the germ of truth. Unfortunately, because of the complex social system, in which his elders refuse to yield the sceptre, dreading a change in the status quo, he is compelled to remain in idle unrest, able to do nothing. To add to his plight, he perceives with wonder that the old have lost hope and are resigned...
...objection was enough to kill Sam Rayburn's request which, by the complex parliamentary conventions of the House, was no 'longer before that erratic body later when Illinois' Church-having created enough confusion for one day-was ready to withdraw it. Consequence was that the House of Representatives last week, for the first time in U. S. history, met on Thanksgiving...
...criticised the legal profession for its unwillingness to accept the progressive principles of administrative law. Our present legal set-up cannot resist for long, he feels, the multitude of new claims made upon it by our complex civilization...