Word: complaint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reasons for reducing the loan period to two weeks is the opinion expressed by several undergraduate publications last fall. At that time the month loan was referred to as an "old complaint," and the two week period used in the majority of college and university libraries was suggested...
...much has been said about the unfairness of lab courses cutting chemistry students out of extra-curricular activities, that the real complaint of the chemists has been quite overlooked. Chemists, and biologists, too, realize the necessity of lab courses, without which they could not possibly get any real understanding of their subjects, and they have no objection to the lab work itself. What the chemists want is to be able to arrange their lab time so that more afternoons would be free...
...feel pain. For the Bulletin told of two little Baltimore boys and a girl who were like the Spartan. Johns Hopkins' Drs. Frank Rodolph Ford & Lawson Wilkins discovered them, found that they stubbed toes, barked shins, broke bones, chewed fingers raw, lifted hot plates off stoves - all without complaint. Even when the tender Achilles tendon (just above the heel) "is squeezed these children make no protest and show no sign of pain," reported the doctors. When touched with a pin they can feel the difference between the point and the head. And they can distinguish slight changes in temperature...
...publicity, Frankie fled St. Louis. To Kansas City, to Portland, Oregon, the song still pursued her. When eventually it began blaring out of the radio, she went a-lawing. By last week she was suing, among others, Mae West, Paramount Pictures, Republic Pictures, Robbins Music Corp. Her complaint: defamation of character; invasion of the right of privacy...
...Crimson mound staff, on the other hand, has far from lived up to pre-season expectations. Ed Ingalls, for two years the mainstay of the Mitchell string, has yet to make a starting appearance on the slab. In addition to his old complaint, a trick knee, the veteran righthander has been bothered by a sore...