Word: complains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Those in the Field of English commonly complain that the Department is so overcrowded that concentrators cannot get sufficient attention from tutors and heads of courses. As a result of this, men have found it difficult to obtain a clear structural idea of the material in the field without taking nine or more courses, an outrageous number...
Chairman Robert L. Doughton last week kept the members of his House Ways & Means Committee with their ears to the grindstone. Their job was to listen strenuously, so that no one could complain that he had been denied a hearing on the New Deal's plan to rearrange corporation taxes in order to encourage the declaration of dividends (TiME, March...
...normal temperature. During a five-hour bout with fever of 106° F., Dr. Fishberg's patients sweated out as much as five quarts of water, one-half ounce of salt, one-third ounce of lactic acid. Due to such acid content of sweat, athletes often complain of "stinging sweat." Because excess salt is shed through the skin, the body cannot supply normal amounts to the stomach, where in the form of hydrochloric acid it is needed for digestion. Nor can the kidneys filter from the blood an adequate amount of salt for the urine. As a result...
...chosen profession, uneducated save in the school of war, scarcely a gentleman, and vulgar-souled . . ." but "... a brilliant air of being above his fellows, a flash of some genius and heroism." To Nelson, Emma was a goddess: "He would never check her vulgarity, wince at her noisy voice, complain of her garish clothes, for he would never notice these defects. To him she was perfect; they were as easy in each other's company as the seaman after a long voyage was easy with the fat doxy waiting for him in the Wapping ale-house...
...nine elderly Justices had hardly moved into their new quarters last October than they began to complain of drafts. The heating was increased. Then they found that they could not hear from one end of the bench to the other, that lawyers before them were almost forced to shout...