Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Physics Department, has ignored this truth in his recent "Manifesto by a Physicist," and the omission has had repercussions which already have increased the gravity of the initial offense. Scientists from all over the country have been endorsing Bridgman's stand until now it seems likely that this individual protest may well become the spearhead of a concerted anti-fascist attack on the part of the nation's scientific leaders. Such action would not only fail to achieve its avowed end, but would in reality have results quite opposite to those desired by the earnest physics professor...
...year-old Pontiff would have lived longer, said his physicians, had he not been confined to the Vatican until 1929 when the Lateran Treaty was signed. He remained within the Vatican grounds for seven hot, debilitating summers as a protest against Italian expropriation of papal property...
Finally, I should like to protest the relentless definition of Professor Feild as the most successful teacher of fine arts. Anyone familiar with the record of Harvard's department in producing capable graduates would stop to consider. This becomes difficult when people are impatient to "undertake an investigation of the complete fine arts setup...
Feild, the termination of whose appointment by the Fine Arts Department recently raised a storm of protest, gathered the material for the exhibit while he was studying at the Disney Studies last summer...
...Scandals of 1939. Members of the Chicago chapter of the National Grandmothers' Club, the old girls scampered through 16 specialties, from cakewalks to French songs. Said the club's Chicago president: "It's got zip-so much zip that several grandchildren have had the nerve to protest...