Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bank to take over 50% of the deposits and the liquid assets of the old banks. It struck Detroit's businessmen as ruinous to liquidate their two old banks, but they regarded the word from Washington as an ultimatum. They despatched a flight of telegrams in protest* and convened to obey. Meetings began. Alfred P. Sloan...
Stripping the report of the buncombe which must inevitably attend any institutional effort at self preservation, there remains its very sound protest against unintelligent slashing. An example of this evil was afforded by the recent fate of the Ornithology Department at the Boston State House, which subsisted through halcyon decades on an, annual five thousand dollars, and very gratifyingly accumulated a surplus of several times that amount through persistent prudence. This surplus might easily, have been used to keep in operation a valuable public services, of long utility to scholars, but the responsible authorities were unable to withstand the hasty...
...subject matter in most departments is defined arbitrarily, merely for convenience. In History and Literature, on the other hand, the subject matter is shaped by an idea. The department was organized, on Professor Barrett Wendell's initiative, as a protest against the barren treatment of history which isolated political events from their context and therefore failed frequently to grasp their significance. Professor Wendell believed that political events could be studied with far more understanding if they were related to the whole culture of a period, to the prevailing climate of thought. The climate of thought could be approached most directly...
Assuming a slightly choleric tone with a faint but perceptible reddening of the gills, John Bull has bellowed a loud protest at the Soviet Union for its jailing of four British subjects on charges of sabotage. Conservatives and reactionaries in the Oemmons gleefully welcomed the pretext to indulge in verbal Bolshevik-baiting, dwelling fervidly on the wicked OGPU and its modern inquisition tendencies. Threats to cancel lrade and diplomatic relations with Russia are noised about. Meanwhile Russia has announced her intention to go through with the trial...
...transfers, now prohibited as a protective measure, would undoubtedly be facilitated under the proposed system, for there would be much less pressure to change Houses and consequently more opportunity to do so. Yet the very similarity of the Houses, which will reduce the desire for transfers, will evoke the protest of some die-hards to the effect that the new system would merely recreate the old Freshman Halls. Such an expectation is unjustified, for while the Houses might take a little longer to form the desired traditions, atmosphere, and "Houses spirit," these would evolve eventually and perhaps in sounder fashion...