Word: complained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...contacts with Harvard men," he added, "I never found reason to complain about their conduct or use any kind of force. They are the best-behaved people I know, and when there is a question of winning a girl, they always seem to be victorious...
Ever since the rise of Adolf Hitler, Germany has been throwing knives at Sweden's press, bludgeoning at Swedish officials to make them muzzle the newspapers. Prince Viktor zu Wied, German Minister in Stockholm, calls almost daily at the Swedish Foreign Office to complain about news stories, editorials, advertisements (even in remote provincial papers) that might offend delicate Nazi sensibilities...
...line, $3.75 monthly for unlimited service in town. For a $5 fee the company will call all of its subscribers, give them any merchant's sales talk. Its 15 "centrals" are pals with their customers, keep them in touch with local gossip. Subscribers grouse at the service and complain that the *Of the rest, 79% are Bell, some 3% mutual system is so lackadaisical about repairs that they frequently have to make them themselves. No less archaic is the company's pole policy. When poles blow down or rot away, line men whack off the diseased portion, resink...
Still puzzled by this eternal dispute are historically minded laymen, who for every mad genius can cite a sweet-tempered family man like Einstein or Darwin, a sunny soul like Spinoza, an Olympian spirit like Goethe. They can complain, and do, that psychiatrists have never made clear the difference, if any, between scientific and artistic talent. Nor have the doctors explained whether a neurotic is: 1) a long-fingered person of "artistic temperament"; 2) a crank who looks under the bed every night or constantly washes his hands; or 3) a robust grappler with convention...
Many students complain that the use of tutoring schools does not make the work any easier and that they usually spend the same amount of time studying tutoring notes after taking dictation for several days...