Word: protests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were you, Mr. Editor, I shouldn't mind at all what Mr. Wormser said but should go ahead and send marked copies of the CRIMSON to all my friends. I was delighted to learn from your comment that, after all, the strike has been used as "a protest against unfair exploitation of the laboring man". But that was "originally", was it not? Alas...
...developments of the last century have been more extraordinary than that of strikes. Originally a protest against grossly unfair exploitation of the laboring man, they have passed into the field of politics. The general strike was used to considerable effect in France at the time of the trouble over "Syndicalism" and somewhat later in Russia, also for political purposes. Now there is a strike in South Africa which appears to be leading into yet newer fields...
...last seems to have discovered a method of painless extraction of the bonus. The intricate plan for the issuing of certificates of indebtedness to veterans apparently was conceived at one of those moments, suggested by Lincoln, when "you can fool all of the people"; for the lightness of the protest against the proposal shows that exceedingly slight popular antagonism has been aroused...
...professors and plot the curves of deans; he could embroider academic records in beautiful sampler designs, and prune, if need be, catalogues and committee reports into the most lovely shapes--hearts, crosses, pyramids, love-knots. Because he could do this he was made to do it, though he regularly protested. But after years of protest and endurance he has--if we may be pardoned a not wholly academic figure--kicked up his heels and run away. The born administrators, he seems to realize, are the fellows to do the administering; he proposes to go back to his studies. How simple...
...climax is reached in the account of an officer in the British Royal Flying Corps, who was figured as an Egyptian because he was born in Egypt while his English parents were staying there. He had left Egypt at the age of five, never to see it again. His protest sums up the whole situation: "If I had been born in a stable," he asked, "would I be a horse...