Word: protestable
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...Canal has reversed the courses of two rivers and disrupted the drainage system of the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River; 2) It has lowered the water level of the Great Lakes, spoiled harbors, endangered shipping; 3) It has vexed Canada, who of course has a right to protest interference with the Great Lakes...
...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...
...about 1806--more than a century after Yale had been founded in protest against the earlier unorthodoxy of Harvard--what was to become the Unitarian movement got the upper hand in control of the university. In the struggles of religious liberalism against orthodoxy that enlivened the beginnings of the nineteenth century the "Christ at Eclesiee" part of the motto was removed. Harvard was out for the truth no matter where...
...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...
...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...