Word: complain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...priestless, churchless. Thus once again THE REVOLUTION, which in Mexico means the Government plus its supporters, struck at Mother Church. Not a single Mexico City daily newspaper printed Archbishop Diaz's denunciation of what both houses of Mexico's Congress had unanimously voted. Protestant denominations did not complain. The largest has only 13 churches in all Mexico. In the State of Vera Cruz the legal limit already enforced on priests and churches is one per 100,000 population- twice as strict as that voted by the Federal Congress. Last week the Legislature of the State of Morelos passed...
...people. Think how this expands the field from which we can choose our friends, our co-workers and contacts, how easy it is to develop a constant interchange of thought. I don't see why anybody anxious to see civilization and culture develop to its highest standard should complain about the size and congestion of New York. My only regret is that it isn't large enough to include kindred spirits all over the world whom I can now meet only at very rare intervals...
...machines do not "rest" once a week and receive a weekly tuning-up they break down, wear out at an alarming rate. Factory executives found that on their free day the assistants left in charge fell down on their executives' jobs. Bitterly an in dividual worker would complain: "Four days of the week my friends find that I am not at home and on the fifth day I find that they are not at home...
...pass on Dictator Bruning's latest "Emergency Cabinet." Fortnight ago his chances of survival seemed slender. Adolf Hitler's prestige was rising, he had been received by President von Hindenburg, and moderate Deputies longed for their lost authority, but when voting time came the threatening moderates (who complain of the Dictatorship) lost heart. Rather than turn the country over to the Hitlerites, they voted for Chancellor Bruning...
...closing, I can only say that many of us have, in the past three years, looked forward to the Army game as one second only to Yale in interest, and it is an undeniable fact that Harvard has never, in any way, had cause to complain of West Point's sportsmanship as West Point now has of Harvard's. A. J. Cassatt...