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Word: complains (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German home broadcast recorded in London, Nazi authorities ranted against "the disgusting behavior of boys and girls. . . . Even maimed officers complain that the lads do not respect them. . . . Our youth displays insolence instead of pride. . . ." So by decree all children from the age of ten up were taken out of school, ordered to work on German farms from eight to twelve hours a day until next November...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: War's Children | 5/18/1942 | See Source »

...spruced up male workers. When a pert miss came into Curtiss Wright's St. Louis plant as a tool designer, the men, after one dumbfounded day, began wearing ties and shaving with great frequency. In some still womanless departments of North American Aviation in Kansas City men workers complain in the plant's paper that the promised blondes haven't arrived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - MANPOWER: Women & Machines | 5/11/1942 | See Source »

Competition from pre-meds, who have to get good marks, makes this a tougher field than Biology. But much of the reputed toughness, is due to the fact that many would-be beside-manner doctors just lack a skill in science, and consequently complain. Nevertheless this is a better choice for the pre-med than Biology in most cases, since it levaes more courses open for distribution, and yet covers everything needed for a thorough understanding of human physiology. It is better avoided, though, by men who can't do math. For the man who intends to do no graduate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DIFFICULT BIOCHEMICAL FIELD HAS EXCELLENT TUTOR STAFF | 4/23/1942 | See Source »

...hurler Jim Mains couldn't complain about lack of support, because he made three of the errors himself, in addition to giving 11 men free tickets to the basepaths. The big, blond, right-hander has plenty of stuff but needs more practice under fire...

Author: By Robert S. Landau, | Title: YARDLING NINE DROPS OPENING GAME, 9 TO 5 | 4/14/1942 | See Source »

...work and hellfire every Sunday, with little visible effect on Oklahoma. Though he claimed to have built more churches "spiritually and physically" than any other man in the State, what he had to show for his pains was penury and insomnia. ("Your mother doesn't care," he would complain, "if I die for lack of sleep. There she lies night after night dead to the world while I am going crazy with sleeplessness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Salvation & Solvency | 4/6/1942 | See Source »

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