Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...football games incidents happen similar to the incident in the last half of Saturday's game, where some player does a thing which if seen by the officials would call for a penalty, and which is seen by large numbers of the audience as evidenced by their audible protest...
...been difficult to protest against the increasing orgies of drunkenness this winter without encountering the charge of a "holier than thou" attitude, of pharisaism, or of prudery, but the chastening words of the one who has done more than any other living man to make Harvard the greatest of American universities find a sympathetic echo in the hearts of hundreds of men whom we believe more truly represent the sentiments of undergraduates than the noisy group who refuse to see the beam in their own eye, and the reply of whose champion is only in truth a corroboration...
...students reached their decision to strike through motives of purest patriotism. They feared--whether rightly or not makes no difference that the Pekin Government was disposed to betray the national interests of China unless all its dealings with Japan were carried on in the full light of day. The protest was a genuine one. There was but one way at hand to express their feelings so that no one could mistake them. And so the students in some 14 provinces "struck," and deserted the academic halls to bring the Pekin Government to its senses...
...between North and South. There must also be discipline. The strike order, when given, must be obeyed; and reports from China indicate that the "walkout", was a fairly general one, the great majority of students having laid down their books as a workman might his tools as a protest against the Pekin Government...
...railroad and I will blow up the city," he said to a newspaper correspondent, and added modestly, "I have no right to give way. For Flume counts upon me, for Italy counts upon me, for all the oppressed nations count upon me. I am a symbol of protest against the iniquity of the treaty of Versailles." As for the Allies taking Flume, he goes on to say, "They will do nothing. They will say nothing. Here at Flume we are stronger than the Allies...