Word: protests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Later on, however, Dooley had a first down on the 1-yard line, and in four chances failed to plug through the line for a touchdown. The whole storm of disappointment and protest of the Dartmouth rooters was directed at the unfortunate quarterback...
This outbreak of rationalism is not to be interpreted too literally. Perhaps it is another protest of the revivified Oriental mind against the same and unreligious institutions which seem inevitably to choke religion. This fresh violence of belief may be the painful force which will free the living core of faith from the incrustations which the centuries attach to it. This protest against authority in the name of intellectual self-assertion may dissolve the effluxes, which stagnate about the fountain of primitive creed...
Lawyer William Wallace, counsel for the estate of the late George Gould, arose to protest a duplication of documentary evidence; stated that the case was costing the Goulds $2,500 an hour...
...were elected, he would spend the first two years cleaning house, and ridding the government of corruption. He also said that if at the end of that time he had not kept his promise, he would call a special election, and ask the people to repeat their vote of protest. It is significant that it is Mr. Davis who is to decide whether government is once more free and unspotted...
...Progressives are not lacking in common sense; they are quite as intelligent as the reactionaries. In fact, the presumption of intelligence is on their side, because a man must be informed before he can protest against an existing wrong and propose a remedy.. Anyone can submit to injustice without having any information on the subject at all; in fact, the less information he has, the less liable he is to protest...