Word: complainingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Recently I read a story in your paper expressing disapproval of the new trays that have been ordered for the mess halls. I am distressed by your opposition to progress, because, although I seldom complain against the local mess hall (in fact, I take solace in the prospect that the children who can stand no cooking but their maid's or mother's, will soon eat in mess halls that will make them yearn for Ptomaine Tessie and the K-house Consolidated), I have been mightily distressed by the present tray situation...
...worry about sick students alone, the Hygiene Department might enjoy relative peace within the University's miniature bureaucracy. But the well ones are evidently just as inclined to complain to judge from the number of gripes each year piles up for the medical administrators...
...before the committee to complain came the National Automobile Dealers' Association, aided & abetted by the C.I.O. Autoworkers' Walter Reuther. Indirect controls, they cried, were awful. Regulation W was so harsh, said New Jersey Dealer William L. Mallon, that "many thousands of new car dealers [might be] compelled to discontinue their business." The auto dealers wanted the payment time on new cars to be extended from 15 to 18 months...
...Lampoon first came to police attention when a practical joker called them October 28 to complain about the editors' parody of mid-western humor magazines, The Pontoon. The police immediately had all copies of the publication removed from newsstands...
What the freshmen want most is increased attendance at their games. They complain that their schedule involves conflicting with varsity contests and playing out of Cambridge when the varsity is away. The conflict problem arises mainly in scheduling prep schools which do not like to release their students for Friday games. But here a small amount of H.A.A. pressure on the schools could prove a boost to freshman morale. And when the varsity was at Princeton, the freshman played at Brown, leaving their followers behind and collecting another justifiable gripe...