Word: complaint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present there is just complaint...
...time has been long, the measure small. India is still an Empire, with Britain's King its Emperor. Eight weeks ago His Excellency the Marquess of Linlithgow, Viceroy and Governor General of India, committed India to a new war. Silently, without overt enthusiasm but also without complaint, India fell in line. It looked as though India's leaders would rally their followers to defend the one thing they have wanted to see ended for over two decades, Britain's Empire; to maintain something they themselves do not have, democracy. But last week Britain clumsily chipped the biggest...
Last week the increasingly social beaver appeared in court, defendant in a complaint brought by Connecticut's Highway Department that a dam was creating a flood danger. Connecticut's Attorney General Pallotti ruled that the dam might legally be destroyed, summarily summed up: "In the case of rational animals we know that the individuals' rights are inferior to those of the State. Following this rule, we must conclude that these animals, being irrational, must also give way to the rights of the State. However, as in the case of human beings, where just compensation is provided...
...with Dr. Ralph Edward Otten, Dr. Bernstine prepared a vaccine from germs found in the vaginal tract of puerperal fever victims. He tried the vaccine out on hundreds of mice, then on a large group of nonpregnant women, to make sure it was not dangerous. "Aside from an occasional complaint such as slight soreness at the site of injection, or mild malaise," said the doctors, "no untoward reactions were observed. Several women volunteered the information that they . . . felt better following the vaccinations...
...home in Hampstead, England. Throughout his last 16 years he suffered pain from cancer of the jaw, saw his books burned by Nazis, his ideas distorted by exaggeration, overpopularity, licentious application. Never lamenting his persecution and illness, he waited for death patiently, his only complaint: "It is tragic when a man outlives his body...