Word: complexe
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...issue at stake is complex, technical and peculiarly vital to Siamese under sentence of Death. In the opinion of His Majesty, Premier Bahol was wangling into a new law clauses under which the King is deprived of his right to pardon a condemned criminal or to consent to his execution...
...gorgeous, jewel-studded robes the Serbian Patriarch and his bishops celebrated with their priests and acolytes the complex rite of Orthodox High Mass. Sonorously the dead King's virtues were intoned: ''Courage! . . " soldierly simplicity! ... determination!" As the organ swelled a moving Orthodox dirge, sobs grew loud throughout the Cathedral. Scarcely able to stand as she left the service. Dowager Queen Marie of Jugoslavia tottered in the arms of her mother, Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania. Lest one or both should break down on the grueling three-mile funeral march a Ford sedan was held in readiness...
...most that we can hope for from any government is a compromise with Truth. In expecting miracles from our government, we must bear in mind that not EVEN Christ succeeded in making his much less complex society perfect according to his Truth. The men of our Administration might be spared some of the unjustness of such attacks as those described, and be given at least some appreciation and encouragement in their noble endeavors. Alfred M. Nittle...
...popularity of the new deal was slow in striking Cambridge. The conservatism which has always marked student opinion here provided a Hoover landslide in 1932 when the country was ridding itself of the laissez-faire complex. Last winter, however, reactionaries dashed for cover as the high purposes of Mr. Roosevelt' and his program struck home. The CRIMSON-Literary Digest poll is testimony to the change...
...strange that, in an attempt to portray the inevitable nobility of this American stock of which we are so proud, the producers saw fit to launch their actors on a communistic experiment of the most extreme kind. Getting away from the intricacies of money and all the characteristics of complex existence, all the worldly belongings of the community are thrown into a common fund. Such heresy out of Hollywood must be very shocking to all good, rugged individualists. Over-simplified as the story is, it does give a very interesting study in elementary division of labor for our rising young...