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Word: gripes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cause of Gripe Sirs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 31, 1936 | 8/31/1936 | See Source »

Clayton's gripe about the tariff, to wit: The tariff raises Southern cotton production costs above world costs; hampers cotton exports by impeding industrial imports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 31, 1936 | 8/31/1936 | See Source »

...friends," he bellowed, dropping his cigar, "You, who as fresh men have come to fill my depleted ranks, there is much I have to say unto you. For I am in plenty gripe". Whereat he picked up his cigar and puffed moodily...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 10/2/1934 | See Source »

...fact that there are always some people who must have something to gripe about was amply proven in yesterday's CRIMSON by the letter from the Mouthpiece of the Workers of America, The Champion of the Downtrodden Masses, or the Maryrs to the Cause of Pacifism, better known as the National Student League...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Workers of the World | 5/9/1934 | See Source »

...would think from this that we are out for a gripe or that Mencken has come at last to Hanover to flay dying cats. The impression is not the right one, for the articles are built carefully out of facts presented coolly. "Steeplejack" thinks that an undergraduate's best training for future worth is in taking something be knows, namely the score on college as it is, and examining it with candid vitality and solid control. Constant humorous recriminations in "The Dartmouth," campus daily, suggest that this policy gets under the skin. Or maybe it is not so much...

Author: By Charles B. Strauss, | Title: "Steeplejack," Journal of Controversy, Blasts "Dartmouth's Deep Blue Funk" | 10/28/1933 | See Source »

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