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...equal number of disadvantages also come with the non-honors program, the most consistent complaint being that four courses without tutorial leave the student with only a garbled and incomplete picture of English literature...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: English | 4/18/1947 | See Source »

...Girl Next Door. In Camden, N.J., Gustav W. Weber sought a divorce on the complaint that he had married the girl next door four years ago-but she went right back to mother on their wedding night, had stayed next door ever since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 14, 1947 | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

Krug remained silent; he suffered Lewis's rawhiding without complaint. Then he ordered 518 Government-held mines closed for safety reasons. Lewis bawled with triumph: "This is Krug's deathbed confession. Oh, God, what a monstrous, grotesque mistake that he is in the position which he occupies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A New Way to Strike | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

...Labor Party and Government will make a serious mistake if they misread all this to mean that they can get by with anything. The one complaint heard in workers' canteens and in Tory bosses' offices alike is: "They don't give us a lead." It is the single crack in Labor's armor, and it could widen into one big enough to let out Clement Attlee and all his Cabinet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: EQUALITY V. LIBERTY | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

...York Times, Critic R. L. Duffus examined the commission's complaint that papers judge news by " 'recency or firstness, proximity, combat, human interest and novelty.' . . . Such recommended items as 'decrease of intolerance' or 'increase in the sale of books of biography and history' do get attention when you can put a finger on them. ... A newspaper devoted largely to undramatized 'significant' news would not last long. This is human nature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Professionals Reply | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

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