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Word: bemoan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fear Brenda's being spoiled," disapproved her paternal grandaunt, Mrs. Ida Spear of Boston. "I bemoan all this spectacular notoriety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: At the Ritz | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

...much more frequent anti-war exhibitions. For by this display of the Harvard R.O.T. C., the Field Artillery second lieutenants will show the University that there are at least some students who are as unafraid to show off their belief in preparedness as the peace strikers were to bemoan this preparedness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOLDIERS' FIELD | 5/18/1937 | See Source »

Frankie Frisch and Dizzy Dean were on hand to bemoan the three game losing streak of the Cards and at the same time to predict the pennant for the Cards. Frisch didn't think so much of the Bees, but Dizzy obliged by assigning them to second place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Memorial Hall Auditorium Filled to Capacity at Annual Freshman Smoker | 5/5/1937 | See Source »

People who bemoan the fact that college hockey is too clean had their answer in three games Saturday night. No less than 44 exiles were given out in the clashes between Harvard-Princeton, Dartmouth-Yale, and Dartmouth Freshman - Y a l e Freshman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WEEKEND RESULTS SHOW HOW TOUGH COLLEGE HOCKEY IS | 1/18/1937 | See Source »

...Class 1 U. S. railroads carried 53,202,296 tons of less-than-carload freight shipments. By 1935 volume had fallen 74% to 14,036,154 tons. Chief reason was the competition of highway trucking. Truckmen claim that railroads are foolish to bemoan the decline because the roads must handle such freight at a loss anyway. But railroadmen want all the business they can get. Last January, in an attempt to recoup, railroads in the West and Southwest got Interstate Commerce Commission approval for a "store-to-door" service. At both ends of the rail haul the roads furnished trucks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Store-to-Door (Concl.) | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

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