Word: complain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hard coal strike commenced Sept. 1, and threw out of work 158,000 men. These highly unionized workers are now enjoying an indefinite autumn vacation. Yet small town merchants in the coal region complain of the brake put on their business...
...Soviet Commisar Lunacharsky, is proceeding with a heavy emphasis upon Marxian doctrines. An attempt to bring students face to face with "reality" is hailed by the Bolsheviki as tending to fit pupils for the rugged highway of life. The former propertied class who have young children in school, complain that the seeds of a godless irresponsibility are being sown...
Generally, considerable impatience was displayed toward the inactivity of the Powers who are to call a conference to settle some of the grievances of which the Chinese so bitterly complain (TIME, July...
...theme was: The American people have little right to complain about our economic situation during the year...
...main trouble with football is that it has yielded to the spirit of commercialism. It is the most dramatic of sports, and the box office has capialized its opportunities. All the major evils against which college authorities complain in football--over-training, the tendency to develop brawn at the expese of brain, in short, athleticism at its worst--are the direct result of introducing the commercial spirit into the colleges, where it has no proper place. It is the commercial spirit that needs to be attacked, not football itself Oust commercialism and save football for its many beneficial qualities--this...