Word: complaint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make them talk. Last week Airmen Lindbergh and Wright had a good chance to teach their secretiveness to others. They went to Washington for a meeting of the executive committee of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, of which they are members. Laid before the committee was a complaint from the Navy and War Departments that secret aircraft developments submitted to the N.A.C.A. for research had leaked into the hands of foreign powers. Last week the committee undertook a "campaign" to plug the leak, began by refusing even to reveal what had already leaked...
Unfortunately, the hardship worked upon the students by this practice far outweighs the joy derived therefrom by their instructors. That this is no idle and disgruntled complaint is evinced by the way in the examinations in Chemistry 44 and Physics D were handled last year. Another case was presented by the Bible and Shakespeare examinations last spring in the field of History and Literature, when a large portion of the questions were not concerned in any way with the required reading. Apparently, whoever was in charge had neglected even to glance at the papers until the test had actually started...
Matter of complaint by Japanese is the habit foreign devils have of calling the Empire's Princes by whatever part of their name suits the foreigners' fancy. All Japanese Princes have given names ending in hito (benevolent male) and the no Miya with which they are all tagged means "Prince of." They are Prince of what comes before the no Miya, as Edward is Prince of Wales. Thus the babe christened last week Akihito Tsugu no Miya is "Aki the benevolent Male, Prince of Tsugu" Aki means "Enlightened." Tsugu identifies the babe as Crown Prince...
...Editor Howe was tired of running a small-town daily. Said he: "People bother me. I don't know why Tom Eglinger didn't get his paper night before last and I don't want to be bothered by his complaint." By that time, the Globe was making $30,000 a year. Editor Howe sold it to his staff for $50,000, used the money to buy a farm on the Missouri River which he called Potato Hill. At Potato Hill he promptly resumed his marathon of printed discontent in E. W. Howe's Monthly...
Preponderant mass of conservative U. S. student opinion was represented by the National Student Federation, composed of heads of student government and other delegates from 175 colleges & universities. Federal Commissioner of Education Zook greeted them with this pronouncement: "My complaint about college students is that they are too darned docile. They are too easily bossed. They don't create enough problems for the college and university administration...