Word: protests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Passionate addresses were made; formal protest was sent to the Commissioner...
...vigorous protest against sensual details of pornographic pseudo- science loses force unless we ourselves issue succinct statistics and physiological summaries of what we find to be average and believe to be normal; and unless we offer, in place of the prolix mush of much sex literature, the few pages necessary for a standard of instruction covering sex education...
...down judgment that the Presbytery of New York had erred in licensing two young men who had expressed doubt as to whether Jesus had been physiologically born of a virgin. Dr. Coffin, "pale and trembling with excitement," had promptly risen in the name of the New York Presbytery, to protest against the decision. This action resulted in postponement of the issue until a special committee of 15 should have made its investigation of the spiritual condition of the Church...
...universal storm of protest as revealed in now extant newspapers seems to show how deeply this fatal restriction of the chief incentive of American business was resented, and how widespread was the resultant depression. None, when faced with such evidence, can deny the probability that this psychological catastrophe may have broken the spirit of an emotional people, and left them defenceless against material disaster; but much hard work remains to be done after the manner of these brilliant discoveries before all the mists of the past are blown away, and the aboriginal American is seen and understood by the modern...
...Faith. Perhaps the most striking feature of the time was the survival and even the re-juvenescence of the Inquisition. It was temporarily in the hands of the Methodists, and the Catholics were naturally indignant at this breach of tradition. There seems to have been general sympathy with this protest; for the Americans have always tried to be a legal nation ever since Edmund Burke told them that they were such, and so public opinion criticised the Methodist tribunals for not having a consistent body of Canon Law to guide their decisions in the varied cases which came before them...