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Word: complaint (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...complaining about their diligence. Our complaint is that if they want to stop the dishonest, they should be more efficient about it--there is still room for improvement. For example, they still have no defense against students who have mastered the Morse code or a private brand of semaphore. They need screens, sound proofing, and cryptanalysts. They have shifty eyes, but not enough of them. They should also be more suspicious--indeed, they should all wear steel-rimmed spectacles and sinister expressions. They should have long necks, which can turn quickly, but still remain stiff...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Efficiency | 5/28/1956 | See Source »

...only thing wrong with the food at Harvard that there are a few unfortunates who have to eat it," Franklin Roosevelt told a potential undergraduate in 1920. This complaint, made long before the House system had given the dining halls their present taint, unfortunately still holds today. Not even Adams House is recommended by Duncan Hines...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Food Financing | 5/23/1956 | See Source »

...Guillant and assistants dutifully took note of all this, as well as of the complaint that operators must ask permission of their supervisors to go to the toilet, with the "round trip" restricted to five minutes. They found essentially the same symptoms in all telephonistes, regardless of their living conditions or other background factors. Concluded the doctors: "It's their work which seems to be essentially responsible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Veritable Annihilation | 5/21/1956 | See Source »

...main complaint is space. For $10,000 the Washington panel thought buyers should get at least 1.200 sq. ft. of space, with three bedrooms. 1½ baths, a kitchen with eating facilities, a living room, utility room and basement. Such a house, say architects, actually costs $15,000. Yet. according to statistics for 1955 compiled by the Labor Department, these things are often not found in houses selling for $15,000. Of all new homes in the $12,000-$15,000 price range. 63.9% had fewer than 1,200 sq. ft. of floor space, while 36.7% of those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock: *BETTER HOUSES ABUILDING- | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

...minor complaint-your failure to point out that the mystic-sounding terms Id, Ego and Superego are just so much Anglo-American psychiatric jabberwocky for simple concepts. In his native German, Freud used understandable terms: es, ich and überich-literally translatable as the it, the I and the beyond-I. This kind of linguistic lily-gilding by Freudian exponents is the stuff that cultism is made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 7, 1956 | 5/7/1956 | See Source »

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