Word: complaint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...always called in the evening. One complaint: "My bridge partner has made four bids in a row which I have missed in the last half hour because of the noise of your damned airplanes. At a penny a point, I can't afford this." Colonel Shoup patiently explained his air-defense mission to all callers, replied to all mail complaints, even sent "his most personable officers" calling on annoyed householders...
...undergraduate divisions seem to co-operate equally in encouraging their students to take liberal arts courses. A complaint heard in many quarters at Cornell was that the engineering school urged its students to take more specialized engineering courses in their elective time, rather than liberal arts subjects. This is especially ironic since the engineering program was recently increased from four to five years, presumably to allow engineers to spend more time in acquiring the elements of a liberal education in the Arts colleges...
Superficially, the Drive's leaders seem to have legitimate grounds for complaint. After all, Combined Charities pledges had been charged on the term bills for many years. And the University's decision to stop this service was based on a danger really very remote--that it might some time be legally unable to collect a delinquent term bill while acting as a collecting agent for an outside organization. The drive, however, was willing to guarantee payment of possible losses from its own funds. Also, as Combined Charities spokesmen point out, a campaign with such noble purposes could be said...
Coach Jordan had no complaint about the late switch. "It is an easier trip by plane than train," he said. "But not really a great handicap...
Unless there is complaint from Lamont-going upperclassmen, the two Wigglesworth arch gates leading to Massachusetts Ave. will continue to be locked at dark this fall, Charles C. Pyne, Assistant to the Administrative Vice-President, said yesterday...