Word: complained
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Though businessmen complain of a shortage of risk capital, the SEC last week reported that in 1951 corporations floated $7.8 billion worth of new securities, more than $1 billion above the 1950 total and equal to the alltime high in 1929. The new securities were more speculative than in recent years, chiefly as a result of the bull market. From 1940 to 1945, the SEC noted, only 16.1% of the new issues were common stock; the rest were bonds and preferred stock. But in the past six years, the common stock share of the total has jumped...
Many educators complain young people lack militant beliefs. If that is true, higher education is to blame. We are being robbed of taxes to bring forth a docile set of note-takers in the class room. There is no teaching of an absorbing faith in the things which made our country great. Today's generation--and add to this the parents--is ready to conform, either through fear, conviction, or, more likely than not, passivity. Belief in democracy is strong, yes, but inarticulate. We are being bankrupted by the wild spenders promoting the frills and flub-dubbery of new wrinkles...
...student who attacked the polls, Edmund Jacobsen, Jr. '54, said that he considered numbering such suuposedly anonymous questionnaires a "breach of ethics." He said: "It will make me think over twice before I sign another poll. I think if they came to interview me. I would complain to the postal authorities." However, he said before he would do this, he would first attempt to find out exactly what the poll is being used...
Freshman teams usually complain that they don't receive enough mention in the sports pages because of all the attention paid to the varsity squads. This year's Yardling basketball team is no different from the rest, but it certainly has greater cause for complaint. For the H.A.A.'s musty record books going back as far as 1920 show that this freshman quintet in the best in College history, both in the number of games won and in the total won and-lost record...
With Grant and Sherman, the President found himself backed for the first time by generals who believed as he did, that the Union's real objective was the Confederate Army. Never again would Lincoln have to complain: "Thus, often, I, who am not a specially brave man, have had to sustain the sinking courage of these professional fighters in critical times...