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Word: complains (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...radio stations. His efficient, reticent son, James Jr., 45, is second in command. The Governor does most of his editorial direction from his Dayton home, dictates an occasional editorial on world affairs and reads every word in all the Cox papers. Says Publisher Cox: "I reserve the right to complain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Monopoly for Cox | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

Unfortunately, it usually seems that her material is not on a par with her talents, and such is the case in "Along Fifth Avenue." It may always be the case since apparently the only ones to complain are the reviewers who have to say something anyhow. There is one really hilarious sketch in which she appears as a salesman for a torrid perfume whose motto is "When Nature Fumbles, We Carry the Ball." In most of the other skits she has little to do: in one she stands behind a restaurant counter and pushes a pie in a customer...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: Along Fifth Avenue | 1/4/1949 | See Source »

...morning, those nagging worries, that lack of enjoyment in work or friends, that feeling of indecision, of conflicting emotions, that nail-biting, that heart that beats too fast now & then, and that sudden flush-what causes all that? And how do you treat people who complain of these sub-neurotic symptoms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Benign Nervousness | 12/27/1948 | See Source »

...Alien Property net than North American Rayon and American Bemberg Corps. Between them, the onetime partly German-controlled companies made about 8% of all U.S.-made rayon yarn. But North American and Bemberg also proved to be a spiny, troublesome haul. The Dutch Algemeene Kunstziide Unie, N.V. (AKU) complained that the companies really belonged to it. Later the board of directors, representing the minority stockholders, began to complain (TIME, March 8). They wanted the Office of Alien Property to give up its control of the companies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALIEN PROPERTY: Off the Block | 12/27/1948 | See Source »

...rule, the people do not complain of dictatorship but of corruption in the government. Since Franco and his cabinet are not regarded as venal, there is far less complaint against them than against the bureaucracy. A small factory owner complained: "To add a wing to my plant, or to get an import license for a small quantity of raw materials, I know I will have to bribe about six people. So only the rich can afford to expand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Help Wanted | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

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