Word: complaining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when people get hurt, and citizens find it necessary to complain it is time to call a halt," Godolphin declared. However, the next evening nine more undergraduates were injured...
...city, and its Youth Bureau has found jobs for as many as 1 ,000 youngsters in a year. It has poured money into softball, tennis and basketball programs-all supervised by school and community instructors. Once, when two small boys invaded Mott's office to complain that the Park Department could not afford to keep the city swimming pools open in August, Mott immediately decided to foot the bill. "We are," says he, "a last-resort organization...
Though-most U.S. newspapers oppose Adlai Stevenson, he could not complain about the preferences of reporters covering the campaigns. A poll of Stevenson's train last week showed that 19 are for Stevenson and nine for Ike; five are still undecided. On Ike's campaign train a poll showed: 24 for Stevenson, seven for Ike, six undecided. Nevertheless, relations between Stevenson and reporters were not always rosy. He has held only five press conferences since his nomination, prefers to make his policy statements in speeches without questioning from the press. Complained the New York Times's James...
...military problems. This is a national necessity, but a loss to the advance of science. Technology and medicine have made enormous progress in the last few decades but as a consequence there has been a heavy emphasis on applied science. Indeed, some harassed college presidents might be inclined to complain that the natural sciences were suffering from elephantiasis larger and larger telescopes, more and more powerful cyclotrons, bigger and bigger budgets. Yet this is a period of brilliant advance in some fields of basic science. The emphasis on the practical is not confined to the physical and biological sciences. Vast...
Undergraduates today sometimes complain that Conant is inapproachable; they forget that the Lampoon proposed creeting a tablet in the Yard on the spot where once President Lowell spoke to a freshman. Conant not only speaks to freshmen on all occasions--formal and informal--but three years ago he hurried next door from his Massachusetts Hall office to Straus Hall to take tea with an intrepid group of first-year men. He is also the first president in over 100 years to teach an undergraduate course at the same time he held the presidency...