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Word: protests (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...racial group gathered around their school as around a centre of sweetness and light. Prime upon the program were a buffalo barbecue and dancing in the new stadium (which cost $250,000 and was given entirely by Indians) - dancing of a nature which moved local ministers to protest that it "tended to cultivate the baser instincts of the Indian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Far West | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

...release for publication by the Committee of a few of the reports which have been inaugurated this year seems to have evoked a mild protest. It is true that this protest comes not from the Freshman class, but rather from upperclassmen whose discreet susceptibilities have been wounded. But it remains a protest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOUNTAINS FROM MOLE HILLS | 10/30/1926 | See Source »

...subjects' was publicly assigned to the Corps Legislative . . ." says J. H. Rose, the historian, "there was a flutter of wrath among those who had hoped that the new Empire was to be Republican. But it quickly passed away; and no French man, except perhaps Carnot, made so manly a protest as the man of genius at Vienna who had composed the 'Sinfonia Eroica' and, with a grand republican simplicity inscribed it, 'Beethoven a Bonaparte'. When the master heard that his former hero had taken the imperial crown, he tore off the dedication with a volley of curses on the renegade...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 10/14/1926 | See Source »

...Chao-hsin, Chinese Minister to Italy, backed up last week his protest before the League of Nations (TIME, June 14) against alleged British high-handedness in China by cabling all prominent Chinese Chambers of Commerce a request that they support him in demanding treaty concessions from Britain in reparation for the recent British bombardment of Wanshien (TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Docile Fatalists | 10/11/1926 | See Source »

Petition Squelched. Roman Catholic attempts to secure six million signatures for a petition of protest to be presented to the Mexican Parliament resulted in the presentation to that body last week of the petition-signed by 162,830 persons. The Mexican Chamber of Deputies refused to act upon the petition by a vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LATIN AMERICA: Majority Opinion | 10/4/1926 | See Source »

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