Word: protests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...officially shut down some 250,000 years ago following a "walkout" by the delegates of the human race, attributed to their breaking the Management's game laws. As far as can be determined, there was no opposition offered and no disturbance or damage to private property inflicted in protest. Today, under somewhat different circumstantiates, the newspaper Adam and Eve have been brought out of the newspaper Eden in the Maine woods,--hurriedly wrapped up in horse-blankets, and transported in the depute of flavor to answer to the charge of violating modern game laws...
...Library since its old home, the historic Cloth Hall, was destroyed by the Germans on August 25, 1914. At that time he joined with several other leaders in Europe in asserting that the building should eventually be restored by the civilized nations of the world as a gesture of protest against such barbarism. He was present at the first meeting in France at which this sentiment was expressed, and volunteered his services at that time: Since then, he has been at work on the project continuously, and is endeavoring to make this memorial the masterpiece of his career...
...avalanche of honors is sweeping everything before it. Old favorites among the authors, finding their thrones tottering, protest against the injustice of a system which makes it possible for an unknown at one step to reach popular fame. Young "also-rans form street-corner indignation meetings against the injustice of all plebiscites and all judges. Nevertheless authors, a old and young, unite in striving to out-elbow each other in the shuffle for decorated popularity...
...write flashy, prize-winning books without any permanent value; and the ease and number of awards has already lessened their worth and the confidence in the juries which made them. Even the security or that court of highest appeal, the "Academic Francaise" is feared for. French critics, storm, protest, and sign manifestos,--but the only effect so far has been to call forth the announcement of a new fiction prize of 30,000 francs. Present day prophets the "wise one", predict a day when French authors will be obliged to conceal the fact that their work was "Crowned",--after this...
...which the undergraduates were "kicking" about; any particular grievance they were nursing. At the moment there seemed no peculiar circumstance worth mentioning; but were the same question propounded now the answer would be immediately give--and it would be concerned with the divisional examinations. Not that there is a protest against the examinations perse. There isn't; but there is much in the way of adjustment to be made, on the part of the faculty as well as of the students. And the chief trouble, as has been mentioned before in these columns, is that some of the men giving...