Word: complains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last year, after the crew race, members of the 'Varsity were heard to complain of this treatment. Harvard will have to work very hard for success next year, and we hope that every man will consider it his duty, whenever it is possible to encourage by his presence the practises...
...Best People. Too many younger-generation pictures have come and gone, making money in the process, for one to complain viciously of this one. If you are of the people who have seen a flapper annoy her mother and finally marry the family chauffeur, or any of a dozen variations on the popular theme-if you have watched and liked it, you will approve The Best People...
...less than three hundred students in all play football, and that the University and Freshman squads together take only about eighty men away from Cambridge for less than two days in the autumn. Your Committee believes that such criticisms have been excited less by the evils of which they complain than by the undoubtedly undesirable amount of public interest in football...
...board, and somewhat less well for the artistic impulses governing those who wrote its contents. The editors have placed a wide variety of reading matter at the disposal of the members of Harvard University, and it is to be hoped, of a wider audience. No one may rightly complain that his literary preference has been neglected. If one likes poetry--these is poetry of sorts in this Advocate; there is also some of the other sort. If one's preference is biography--he finds in this number a passage from the life of a little-known New York patriot...
...Germans complain of high taxes; but for several years they were untaxed, so any tax would seem high to them now. It is hard to tell where taxes are higher, in Germany or in France. The people of each country believe that their leaves are the highest in the world; but has a matter of fact the English are the cost heavily taxed...