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Word: gripe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Compared with Coach Leahy, Stu Holcomb sounded like Pollyanna. Ten of Purdue's eleven 1947 starters were back this year, including Quarterback Bob De-Moss, a fine passer, and Halfback Harry Szulborski, who averaged better than six yards a try in 1947. That left Holcomb only one understandable gripe: a schedule that pits Purdue against Notre Dame, Northwestern and Michigan in the first three weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Leahy Carries On | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

Arthur W. Coolidge, Lieutenant Governor of Massachusotts, condemned the Democratic Party as "a rag-bag of splinter groups, most of its members with either a greed or a gripe" in an address to the Harvard Young Republican Club in Emerson D last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Huberman, Coolidge Censure Management and Democrats | 12/2/1947 | See Source »

...think the food at Harvard is good, in Eliot House where I live if not always at the Union. I have never found much to gripe at considering we pay only $11.50 per week board. In fact, I have always secretly thought that Harvard did pretty well to feed us for that in the face of high prices...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Food Fancier | 11/28/1947 | See Source »

...within the H.A.A. itself. Investigations conducted by the Student Council and the Crimson disclosed that students were annoyed by the reselling of turned-in tickets in the cheering section to non-University purchasers, and by lack of early notification of a possible sell-out, not to mention the biggest gripe of all--seats in the end zone for the Holy Cross and Yale games...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Deal | 7/18/1947 | See Source »

Most of them now work in a reconverted wing of the Sperry Gyroscope Plant at Lake Success, L.I. Their offices, nicknamed "rabbit warren," are cramped, mostly without windows, and erratically air-conditioned. The international civil servants work hard, gripe some, get on without nationalist friction but also without ardent international friendship. Few of them have a sense of high mission in their work; last week, their foremost hope was that the Assembly would get done before Christmas. But most observers agreed that they were doing a workmanlike job of keeping the Assembly grinding away at its curiously varied tasks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Immigrant to What? | 11/25/1946 | See Source »

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