Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dismissal itself. The maids have to care for about forty-five rooms, on a salary of about eight dollars a week under the present arrangement. The students, to combat the decision, have been gathering in fraternities and dormitories to frame petitions, while it is understood that a protest will appear in the next issue of the Harkness Hoot...
...base rate to piecework wages. Deducted from employes' pay was "dead time"-time lost when they were moving from one part of the plant to another, when materials were delayed, when machines broke down. Some said they were getting less than $10 a week. Not unionized, they could protest only by striking...
...insidious type of competition. With a board of directors composed of an influential group of brokers, controlling large lines, it can almost compel companies to advertise. Where this results in an impairment of the established business of the independent trade journals . . . we believe we have grounds for serious protest...
...Paul, Minn., demanded land tax reductions from Governor Olson. Their story: "We were promised years ago that the gross earnings tax would cut the levy; that the gas tax would cut the levy; that the auto tax would cut the levy. . . . These taxes have never cut the levy. We protest this terrible cost of State government. To give just a mill or two less ... is but trifling with the problem...
...from Fame. On the strength of his previous work many a Huxley reader will buy this notebook ("an anthology with commentaries"), will find the comment keen, the choice of quotations illuminating. Note-Taker Huxley's apology for publication: "An anthology compiled in mid- slump? Fiddling, you protest indignantly, while Rome burns. But perhaps Rome would not now be burning if the Romans had taken a more intelligent interest in their fiddlers...