Word: protest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...commemorate our dead in the Civil War and there removed his shoes and socks. Taking a bottle from his pocket, he emptied its contents on the offending areas. Two minutes later, lotion, socks, and the student were back in their seat again and the exam was proceeding serenely. No protest was heard...
MUCH has been written against the Soviet regime in Russia, but rarely has there been published a more effective protest than this new book, "Escape From the Soviets." It is a straightforward, patently honest account of the hardships suffered in Soviet Russia by the family of a middle-class university professor...
...very vivid one. Its chief feature is the sincere way in which it is painted. One sees poity prejudices and dislikes vanish before a willingness to do anything that will preserve life itself. The cumulative effect leads one to think that this book accomplishes its purpose: it presents a protest by a simple narration of events...
...Thursday, May 17th last, some thousand persons representing a diversity of religious faiths and political creeds assembled in Charlestown, Mass., intending to meet on a vacant lot near the Navy Yard in order to protest the presence of the Nazi propaganda ship, the "Karlsruhe," in Boston harbor. This protest they deemed very necessary in view of the fact that the excessive cordiality of the reception given the German cruiser by Mayor Mansfield and Governor Ely could searcely be distinguished from an expression of approval of the Nazi philosophy and practices...
...made the whole country its debtor." President Roosevelt's message summed up the attitude of the congregation in the Waldorf-Astoria that evening. There has never been any valid criticism against Memorial Hospital since Mrs. Elizabeth Hamilton Halleck Cullum, granddaughter of Alexander Hamilton, founded the institution as a protest against those who considered cancer a vile, shameful disease. Mrs. Cullum laid the cornerstone of Memorial Hospital's first building at 106th Street and Central Park West, and died of cancer before the structure was finished. She is "St. Elizabeth of Hungary'' in one of Memorial...