Word: protestable
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...Bingham explains, to break this tradition would undoubtedly cause alumni and a percentage of the undergraduates to protest. Harvard has never feared a protest. Neither should sentimentality for customs ever be allowed to influence their retention if conditions warrant their being broken. But in this case there seems to be no immediate reason for breaking with the past--especially at Harvard. The cries from many of the other colleges seem mainly to have been issued by youthful iconoclasts ever on the lookout for a change...
...sent out against them. Two hundred natives were slain. The slaughter was comparable in every way to the notorious British massacre of Indians at Amritsar in 1919-for it turned out that the 5,000 Annamites were, in this particular instance, unarmed, had only been making a march of protest...
...that the 20-year-old prayers of the bereaved shall be answered, that the fallen shall be resurrected, permitted to return to their homes. When the soldiers have crawled out of their graves and the news of the miracle is broadcast over the earth, pan- demonium is loosed. Capitalists protest their presence on economic grounds, churchmen declare the resurrection unholy, since the men are human and lustful, statesmen argue that there is no surplus land available for the 13,000,000 weird newcomers. Commerce and communica- tions collapse, councils are called, panic reigns. Throughout the nations the cry goes...
...Austrian cavalryman during the War. On the night that Miracle at Verdun opened in Leipzig last October, he sank into unconsciousness, died without knowing of the show's success. The son of a military man, a one-time military student himself, he loathed war, wrote his play in protest against it. The Guild, under Director Herbert J. Biberman, has given Miracle at Verdun a skillful presentation. It is overlong (three hours), lets one down a little at the end. but is a tremendously interesting and audacious piece of modern theatrical technique...
This proposal has been made from time to time, and is even said to be favored by the Bishop of Durham and a considerable body of Anglican clergymen and laymen. Essentially, however, it is the protest of the great body of British Dis-senters?Presbyterians, Methodists, Bap-tists?against the favored position of a Church to which they do not subscribe, but for whose upkeep they are taxed. If the proposal were to take effect, English Episcopalians would be obliged to support their own Church out of voluntary funds, and they would lose the prestige conferred by the presence...