Word: complaint
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...however, to the Black Hills came a hot spell; showed temperatures higher even than in the East. While Washington thermometers read 88° and New York's 84°, those in Rapid City danced about 96°. Even the trout stopped biting, and, though the President made no complaint of the heat, he discarded his coat and sat shirt-sleeved on the State Lodge porch. From the heat waves rose rumors, unconfirmed, that the President might shorten his western visit, leave for the East about the middle of August, spend a few weeks in Vermont before returning to Washington...
...feel. Friends, however, carried her case to the U. S. Supreme Court which last May (TIME, May 23) upheld the constitutionality of the Syndicalism Act. Miss Whitney, now 60 years old, prepared to serve her sentence, said that in comparison with Sacco & Vanzetti, she had little cause for complaint...
...Committee on Relations with the Alumni was appointed by the Board of Overseers in 1923 to deal with all matters having to do with the relations of the University and alumni" in response to the prevalent complaint of various Harvard Clubs and the Alumni Association of the lack of such a connecting link. The Committee consists of three members of the Board of Overseers and has the President of the University and the presidents of the Alumni Association and the Associated Harvard Clubs as ex-officio members...
...This complaint is well taken. Certainly the great material prosperity which has been the fortune of American universities, the enormous growth which they have sustained, have outdistanced the personalities of active teachers. Harvard has been, more fortunate perhaps than any other university in escaping the formalism of the large academic factory and, in addition to possessing several men who by virtue of their own attractions have gathered a following, has introduced the tutorial system, calculated to bring the student into closer contact with his mentors. But outside Harvard, in the majority of great universities, opportunity for intimacy is small...
...threatens no extraordinary innovations and promises that the Huntington surface cars will not be rivaled by Mr. Antheil's Ballet Mechanique or similar modernisms. The old order then will not changeth; and since the old order has been found entertaining in previous seasons there is no cause for complaint. And, besides, if one does not care for the Puccini there is the pop--and vice versa...