Word: complaint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week in the British Medical Journal, Dr. Victor P. Wordsworth reported that B-6 can also cure a much more common complaint: an overdose of alcohol. "A typical case," wrote Wordsworth, "was a woman of 45, brought in singing, swearing and staggering." She was given a 100-mg. hypodermic shot of B6. "The results were far more dramatic than I anticipated . . . Three minutes [later] she became quiet, apologized for the trouble she had caused us, and asserted she felt quite sober. She was able to walk across the room perfectly steadily...
Admission of WBRU came up during the annual convention of Ivy's six member colleges, held Saturday at Dartmouth. Representatives of WHRB immediately lodged a complaint with the network stating that the poor plant and equipment of the Brown station made it unfit for membership...
...Washington, British Ambassador Sir Roger Makins got the point, protested to the State Department, citing the cancelations as a reversal of announced Administration "trade, not aid" policy; State echoed Sir Roger's complaint, expressed fears that the reversal would cost the U.S, good will among her allies...
Next on the complaint list were the intermediate French courses, especially French C, which accounted, for one fourth of all criticisms. Other courses were far down the list--the next most frequently mentioned being Mathematics C with 4 percent and Natural Science 3 and History 61 with 3 percent each...
...improve the opportunities for it. Meanwhile, junior and senior tutorial reading is left very free. There is a strong argument, however, for maintaining uniformity in sophomore tutorial. Its presence may not be felt as a blessing by all students. But its absence would soon become the subject of justified complaint--about inequality of assignments, about the relative interest or importance of the subjects discussed, and, when the student face General Examinations in his senior year, complaints about the value of sophomore tutorial in preparing him to deal with his field as a whole. Moreever, there is an extraordinary difficulty...