Word: complaint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thought very possible that it will lead not only to the gradual elimination of laboratory work for most of those taking Geology 1, but also to a great liberalizing of the course routine in such similar courses as Geography 1a and b. For a number of years the major complaint made by students against the elementary science courses has been directed at the formalism and lack of interest current in the laboratory periods...
Snapped Sir Philip, until 1931 a director in Consolidated Tin Smelters: "His Majesty's Government watch the developments in the tin market, but do not consider any action on their part called for. . . . We have never had a complaint that the present high price of tin is unreasonable. . . . In fact the price of tin has remained remarkably stable for many months with the result that speculation has, I understand, greatly diminished...
...colitis but sinus is now the most fashionable physical complaint. Likewise Surrealism is the latest rash on the high brow of Art. Even experts are puzzled by its cockeyed symptoms, cannot give a straightforward diagnosis; while laymen, confronted by the nightmare inconsequence of such surrealist pictures as Salvador Dali's (TIME, Nov. 26), are amused, bewildered or alarmed. But surrealism has its uses. In I Am Your Brother Author Marlowe has made it work for him, shows through this feverish medium a story distorted into real horror. One reason why such gruesome tales as Dracula are still traditional...
...Frank 45), were accepted for service. After a short tour of duty in the trenches their deception was discovered and they were sent to the rear to heave coal, wash dishes. But the Fowler brothers were no ordinary soldiers: they addressed a strong and lucid complaint to the authorities in which they suggested "that such conversion of persons who undertook purely from patriotic motives the duties of soldiers on active service into unwilling menials or servants is an incredibly ungenerous policy on the part of the military authorities, especially when the victims are advanced in years and of a class...
...cover up errors of omission and commission of the board of governors of the New York Coffee & Sugar Exchange. . . . Practically without exception my firm and clients were not net short of sugar, but were short of December against other sugar that could not be delivered. . . . The cause of complaint was the technical corner which existed in the midst of plenty...