Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since to hand over the Saar is a complex business, the Council left all details to Premier Benito Mussolini's keen henchman at Geneva, Baron Pompeo Aloisi, Chairman of the League's Saar Committee (TIME, Dec. 17). If the Committee gets bogged before Feb. 15, Baron Aloisi will ask the Council to meet in extraordinary session, cut Gordian knots...
...certain cases of disease and poisoning, however, the heart behaves like a badly timed automobile engine. It goes into an uncontrollable quiver. Every fibre of the complex heart muscle twitches without any apparent relation to the twitching of other fibres. This condition is called fibrillation. When fibrillation concentrates around the auricles, it becomes a serious heart disorder. Fibrillation around the ventricles quickly ends in death...
...interest in art and literature would fade and enthusiasm for pure thought would vanish; what would remain would be a barbarism which all the radios and automobiles and skyscrapers in the world would not conceal. In such a desert, the applied scientists, essential for a smooth operation of the complex mechanism, might be the only men with a true education. The monks in the Dark Ages preserved the remnants of one civilization to enable another to come to life. Perhaps, in some measure at some time, the scientist and engineer may have a similar challenge...
Captain Dick Boys will lead his Crimson cagers against Amherst tomorrow afternoon in an attempt to garner another win for the revivified Feslermen. With a League victory behind them, the defeatist complex that has been apparent to a greater or lesser degree for some years should be missing, and the Harvard morale should have risen several points...
...Louis Aureglia of Monte Carlo: "Léon's management has reduced the principality to the status of a cheap gambling joint! He has almost ruined us. Léon must go!" Actually cheapness has long been Monte Carlo's chief attraction for earnest German gamblers with complex systems, for withered English crones who sit day after day playing for fantastically low stakes in the musty roulette room contemptuously called "The Monkey House...