Word: complexity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...situation is admittedly complex. The Episcopal Temperance Society illustrates an attitude, and little more, in the great welter of discussion and morass of mystified opinion. There is only the hope that Father Time may be more quick and bounteous in his revelations than he usually seems...
...international problems were not at present complex enough to defy any possibility of easy and immediate settlement, the "National Woman's Party", in conjunction with the most militant feminists of Europe, is planning to raise another issue. It is hoped that the "international woman's movement" will soon be able to set up in Geneva a committee to work for equal rights for women in all legislation of the League of Nations. It might seem logical for the women of America, at least, to bring about this country's entrance into the League before they plan to take an active...
...Independent criticizes Mr. Coolidge for his taciturnity and matutinal solemnity at political breakfasts he only evidences his own ignorance of human nature and breakfast, well versed though he may be in politics. Not even the most inimical of the Coolidge crities would be grudge him a before-breakfast complex. It is one thing to chat merrily along at luncheons and dinners-and it is another to be pollyannic at the first meal...
...likely to bring you a very favorable reaction to the proposition. The ability of Mr. Banks, as our foremost match player, as a player and analyst of international fame and as an editor has long been established. Chess is more widely played than checkers. I believe. It is more complex and outwardly spectacular, but is by no manner of means even approximately as scientific. Every position in checkers is a problem in pure mathematics. As one who has (in 1906) worked in the upper reaches of differential and integral calculus, and who has also spent many years (not recently...
...charming ladies are closely allied by a certain common denominator, one would expect them to be equally appreciated by the Yale man-about-Chapel-Street, so renowned in ribald Princeton and Harvard verse. So we earnest hope that this balloting will not bring on an epidemic of inferiority complex at either college. Daily Princetonian, March...