Word: protestable
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President Masaryk did nothing. Ihe potatoes stayed in Hungary. An official protest by the Hungarian Legation was pigeonholed at the office of famed Czechoslovakian Foreign Minister Edvard Benes...
...public. The facts in the Berkman case are too well known to repeat, but it seems that anyone who is acquainted with them must realize that Miss Berkman is being made an example of, as a warning to those who might in the future have spirit enough to protest a wage...
Having spent the past eight months playing tag with the traffic tangle in Harvard Square and environs, I wish to protest against the laissez-faire attitude adopted toward this menace. I am sure most members of the University will endorse the protest. There are times when one envisions Harvard as a fortress guarded by an infinite number of whirling autos, buses and street cars, forming a gamut through which the lorn pedestrian must pass...
...pretext can explain such a behavior. . . . Mr. Gigli has during the current season profited from the sacrifice which we have made to keep the Metropolitan going and is again trying to get his full salary at the expense of all of us who are reducing our respective salaries. We protest against Mr. Gigli's lack of co-operation and esprit de corps...
What follows could only happen in Russian novels of the great tradition. Among confused but brilliant conversations the story of the factory's building winds its way. The expropriated peasants protest; hairy saints are rumored to have come from the mossy woods to warn against the new regime; the workers riot; everybody talks at brilliant length. Through the evergreen forest's fur a road is sheared. An immense boom crosses the river, holds back the confluence of logs. With spring's floods the boom breaks. It does not matter?build better, build again. In the depth of the silent wilderness...