Word: complained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Have you anything to complain about?" he was asked...
...from this infallible sign, his adopted father Aymar had good reason to know all about him. He took the child and his mother into the country and brought the boy up carefully, hoping for the best. But lycanthropy will out: before Bertrand was full-grown farmers thereabouts began to complain of midnight raids on their sheep. Locking Bertrand in his room only made him worse. Finally he escaped; Aymar tracked him into Paris by a trail of murders. During the siege of the city (this was in 1870) and the nightmare of the Commune, Werewolf Bertrand fed at will...
There can be no doubt that the strikers in this case have much to complain about. At best a seasonal industry, the shoe plants have been running at less than half-capacity since 1929. Wages were never much above a bare subsistence level, and since the crash have been cut repeatedly and drastically. Conditions in the factories are extremely foul; high competition between firms and the shifting of capital to the south has not allowed any luxuries. Unions are rarely dealt with and have little force in regulating payrolls. In view of this situation it is particularly tragic that nothing...
...present time, some Tutors complain that they haven't enough time to spend on the good men, the ideal of some appearing to be full time with the Honors Senior working on a thesis subject. It seems to me the ideal distribution of time would give the eager and able Sophomore or Junior time enough to bring him to the point where he could work more by himself than ever before in his Senior year and enough time on the unregenerate Sophomore or Junior to be sure that there was no hope of awakening latent powers befor he was consigned...
Most authorities declare that more women than men suffer from migraine. But Dr. William Allan of Charlotte, N. C. offers figures to show that migraine afflicts both sexes equally. He says that more women complain about their sick headaches because the disturbance is apt to be more severe in them. The headaches disappear while a woman bears a child, during the nursing period and after menopause...