Word: complexity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reference to an extension of the Alsace Agreement, incorporated in the Versailles Treaty, by which Alsatian produce is admitted duty free into Germany. In light of a coming era of renewed commercial activity Britain and Italy were also anxious to conclude new commercial treaties. The whole matter became so complex that it was decided to hold a special conference in Paris during October to deal with the problems and draw up the treaties...
...containing many plagiarisms, "the outpourings of a gushing school girl." She regrets that Marie did not write of some lovely Rumanian legend, that her Russian blood did not endow her with "some talent, mysticism and taste," that the English blood did not "add a sense of humor to her complex composition." Finally she is left pondering what on earth the book is about. Says Mrs. Sheridan: "A strange young woman named Glava rides a carrot-colored horse whose tail sweeps the ground.... She does much climbing of mountains, dresses in white robes, carries a spear, has her hair...
...real head of the Varsity), the white haired Doctors, the precious and everlasting Proctors (all-powerful and most hated of mortals) and the Heads of Houses (designated heads of colleges) put their heads together and cruelly crushed to death the old Delegacy for the Extension of Teaching. By a complex arrangement the Hebdomadal Council, Convocation and Congregation (executive and legislative bodies of the University) will appoint 14 members who will be styled the Delegacy for Extra-Mural Studies ?that is, academic instruction of adults carried on at various places outside of Oxford...
...time is almost here when the astonishing realtors from Cleveland will put together the "Nickel Plate System" as one of this country's greatest railroad mergers. The system will include Nickel Plate, Erie, Clover Leaf, Pere Marquette and Chesapeake & Ohio, and the coming consolidation will necessitate a complex exchange of securities, details of which are probably not alto- gether settled in even the Van Sweringens' minds. Probably the most definite notion of the Greater Nickel Plate System that is to be, at present exists out in the Atlantic Ocean, under the square-topped derby hat of an elderly...
...teaching arithmetic, criteria of social utility should supplant old formal doctrine. "Useless processes": derivation of cube roots; common divisors and least common multiple beyond the power of inspection, metric system, troy and apothecary weights, complex and compound fractions, annual and compound interests...