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Word: complained (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whose." Newsmen had no trouble finding out who had arranged the showing-dumpy, bespectacled Ross Collins of Meridian, Miss., who for 15 of his 18 years in Congress has been plumping for mechanization of the Army. For 14 of those years drawling Representative Collins made no progress, used to complain: "I don't seem to have convinced anybody but Hitler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Object Lesson | 7/22/1940 | See Source »

...first time got on Variety's list of network "plugs." We Could Make Such Beautiful Music and Here In the Velvet Night were each played more than ten times, but by house orchestras rather than popular bands. Variety reported that music publishers affiliated with ASCAP planned to complain to the Federal Communications Commission that CBS was discriminating in favor of B. M. I. songs, breaking its rule against repeating any number within two hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: B. M. I. Expands | 7/22/1940 | See Source »

...stockholders have had no reason to complain of either Avery policy. But ex-Ward executives, who call themselves the "Has-Been Club." predicted last week that their swelling membership (around a dozen) had not yet reached its limit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAILING: Mr. Avery's Ex-Men | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

...would like to laugh. He realizes that the Evening Post's dramatic critic is very amusing, but, in his Victorian way, he is not amused. How can he be happy spiritually when his physical needs are so great? How can he laugh when his back aches or his feet complain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 4/25/1940 | See Source »

...prejudice, injustice and ignorance. Goebbels is running this India racket, I am certain of it. Why should at least three questions about India be asked at every one of Duff's lectures in the U. S. A.? Who sends the lecturers from India to America to complain of British rule ? The Indians are not asking for America's support, but the Germans are inciting in the dark anti-British feeling-in Genoa as in Chicago or any other neutral town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 22, 1940 | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

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