Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...protest of Hurlbut Hall concerning the score of the final championship freshman intramural football game has been shelved until Tuesday, when Adolph W. Samborski, Director of Intramural Athletics, returns to Cambridge...
Hurlbut has protested a safety scored by Grays Hall in Thursday's game. Hurlbut claims that an intercepted pass in the end zone should be ruled a touchback and not a safety. The game is formally under protest. Grays...
...planes from the Sixth Fleet were violating Syrian air space, and the Damascus press claimed that the planes had swept in over northern border towns at rooftop level to terrorize the population. Next day newsmen asked the Foreign Ministry's official spokesman if Syria planned a diplomatic protest. Astonished, the official asked who had reported the incident, was told Bizri had. "Well, that's a new one," said the official. The Turkish-Syrian border was sleepily quiet. Turkish forces on the frontier (three armored brigades, three infantry divisions) were in defensive positions, and travelers along the Syrian side...
...year-old Agda Rossel. delegate to the U.N. Commission for Women's Rights -had declared themselves no longer members of their church. (Since 1952 Swedes have been permitted to leave the state church merely by signing a form stating their intention.) Leader of the women's protest was Esther Lutteman, 69, a clergyman's widow and an outstanding Lutheran churchwoman, who denounced the church as too ceremonial, too institutional and, worst of all, too masculine...
News that this historic period piece was to be razed brought cries of protest. From Washington, B.C. the National Trust for Historic Preservation wrote: "Nowhere in the state, or even in the nation, is there a better preserved or more notable example of the Gothic Revival era." Architecture professors from Yale, Cornell and Columbia added their protest. Said Historian Wayne Andrews: "Its destruction would be a tragedy...