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...Croix de Guerre in France. He said to the warden: "I shall do my best to obey every rule of the institution, and I do not expect to be shown any favors over other prisoners. If I am assigned to shoveling coal, I shall not make the slightest complaint. I am willing to do anything you may require...
...maintaining culture and constraining concupiscent collegians from over indulgence in hot dogs and gin neither of which is a nice complement to the other. Indeed, so violent have been the results of such admixtures that the dean has laid a curse upon road-houses and a complaint in the daily press...
...will not divulge the source of citations. And in most cases it has in its own possession only a general complaint. On these bases it prescribes extra rhetorical training. If the Committee does not know the particular fault of the student, the work is entirely at random. If it does, the work is more to the point, but somewhat out of its proper setting in the student's mind. In no case does he know, except by conjecture, on what occasion, how, and in the opinion of what instructor, he committed his mistakes...
...have noticed letters of complaint but heretofore I have had none to make. But how cruelly you have betrayed my trust in you. With your flippant sarcasm...
...Washington Senator Cummins made public the conclusions of the Department of Justice as to the advisability of prosecuting the Aluminum Co. in accordance with a former complaint of the Trade Commission. That complaint charged that the Aluminum Co. had 1) delayed shipments to competitors in order to injure them, 2) furnished defective metal for the same reason, 3) discriminated among competitors and subsidiaries in fixing its prices, 4) hindered its competitors from enlarging their business. The Department of Justice declared that from its own investigation these complaints could not be shown to be true, and the evidence contradicted them...