Word: complaint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drying, before another active day of field work can be undertaken. Often enough, after stretching every muscle and testing every nerve in the ticklish ascent and descent of successive cliffs, we reach home with our knee-joints so lame and stiff that no one utters a single word of complaint at the enforced inactivity of the succeeding...
...this respect, alone, the Harvard Fund, contributed by the Alumni and given to the University to employ at its own discretion, justifies its existence. The inadequacy of teaching salaries is a complaint so often attuned to the public ear in this country that it generally falls on barren ground, but the fact remains that the men at the top of any other profession command incomes far exceeding those of the leading educators in the wealthiest colleges. As President Lowell states, the Alumni contribution is best put to use in increasing the salaries of the teaching staff. After four years...
Revolutions broke out in the north and interior of Haiti and were put down, the natives say, by unnecessarily brutal methods. A corvee system was instituted to build roads, but this administration, too, brought bitter complaint. The fact that much of the American personnel spoke no French and most of the natives no English naturally impeded progress and cooperation...
...gendarmerie, which keeps order. It was at first officered entirely by Americans, but now to a considerable extent by natives. Through engineers from the United States Navy, we supervise the building of roads, and today there are more of these, and in better condition, than formerly; the Haitian complaint is that they have been built to facilitate luxurious automobile traffic which only the Americans can afford...
...heartlessness of hundred million dollar corporation headed by a Lowell and with its Alumni Society headed by a Morgan towards those who do its dirty work is that reported in this morning's Post. "Twenty scrub-women in the Widener Library were discharged by virtue of no fault or complaint of their own, by Harvard College following advice from the State Minimum Wage Commission that their pay must be raised from 35 cents to 37 cents an hour making a total increase for the twenty of $2.00 a day or $12.00 a week. The women were getting $10.50 a week...