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Word: complained (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Five who might be playing tomorrow will be out of action, and yet Barnaby, like Valpey, doesn't complain. "We're going to Dartmouth to win, and we expect to do it," he stated. His attitude was typical of that of the squad...

Author: By Herbert S. Meyers, | Title: Lining Them Up | 12/9/1949 | See Source »

There is little the Republican Party can do at present, Webb believes. "The Democrats [have] an initiative based on [this] new principle which for the time being the Republican Party cannot possibly take from it and remain the Republican Party ... It can only complain, criticize, claim it can do the job better and more efficiently. Under present conditions it seems doubtful whether it can find anything to offer that its members would accept or the American voters would take at face value. The Republican Party worked out to the last grain its vein of success and for the present...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Thin Pickings | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

...English in provincial schools (and later by lecturing on English literature at the Imperial University in Tokyo), married a Japanese girl and became a citizen. Besides his wife and their four children, he supported his wife's entire family, found himself so busy he had little time to complain about life anymore. He taught all day, wrote most of the night. His subject for his last 14 years: Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Passionate Pilgrim | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

Those who are accustomed to watching fine basketball found much to complain about after Harvard's 67 to 56 victory over Tufts here Saturday night, but the Medford partisans had more occasion for wincing than Crimson fans. And all things considered, it was food to end the 19-game losing streak which began last December...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: Quintet Stops Tufts, 67-56, In First Game | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

Throughout this period of criticism against the loyalty oath I have heard no student who has singed it complain against intimidation. If there has been any silent disapproval, those who are not in favor have the opportunity to resign and follow whatever policies they wish--we have no concentration camps or bleak salt mines to which to send those who disagree with the polices of the government. Young Progressive take note. Douglas G. Shaw...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 11/16/1949 | See Source »

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