Word: complaint
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Ickes that big petroleum producers were squeezing little ones, that while the oil code increased costs to producers $125,000,000 a year, $486,000,000 in price increases were being passed on to consumers. With North Dakota's Nye he went to the White House with another complaint. He felt that NRA was injuring the small businessman. The President offered both Senators seats on a new supervisory board, which both refused. It was then agreed that some anti-trust teeth would have to be fitted into the Blue Eagle's bill at the coming session...
Since calibre of adventure rather than fluidity of style has been the criterion for the excerpts chosen, a corresponding absence of uniform literary merit calls forth neither surprise nor complaint. Side by side with such brilliant prose as that in which De Quincey illumined the mysteries of laudanum, we find the halting periods of Kavanaugh, whose bravery saved the British garrison at Lucknow. The biblical account of the exodus from Egypt offers strange contrast, both in time and in method of approach, to the war diary of a flighty young aviator. In lesser vein are the colorful tales of spies...
...hundred seventy-five Freshmen have signed a petition complaining of the breakfast hours in the Union. The submission of this complaint to Delmar Leighton, dean of Freshmen, last Friday brought to a head the fear that the 50 student waiters in the Union will lose their jobs. The petition reads...
Yesterday, in commenting on a suggestion which was advanced in a council of the Economics department, the CRIMSON opposed the idea that the Tutorial System is a proper item for budgetary economy. There has been complaint, perhaps justifiable, that in this manner the CRIMSON singled out the Economics department for especial criticism. Such was not the editorial's intent, it was the department of History which gave Harvard's tutorial system birth; the division of History, Government, and Economics has taken the lead in encouraging its growth: today, the officers of this division are the most outspoken opponents...
...Dochmanyi for the omission of his final syllable; to Mrs. Prior, for spelling her name with a y, and to Pini, for the agonizing distortion of his to Pain; and to any other Society or individual to whom the article in question affords ground for complaint...