Word: protestable
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...always been very fashionable among students to protest against the food served them, and the communication printed yesterday is but the repetition of what has been going on for years. The Freshmen have always protested; last year they even threw eggs at the walls. An Alumni Bulletin printed, in 1804, the diary of a student who stated that the food was so poor that he feared that his parents would never see his face again...
Later, the League changed its opinion and decided to bring the protest to the attention of the Council. It was not certain, however, if this would be done at the next meeting which takes place this month in Rome...
...bench on the floor of the Assembly was conspicuously empty. The Ministers nodded comprehendingly one to the other; for they were aware that the minority races (Slovaks, Germans, Magyars, Ruthenians) had carried out their oft-declared intention of boycotting the Parliament. Later, the minority Deputies delivered a solemn protest to the world demanding their "fundamental rights." * Thus, debate on the financial situation (most concerned with an unbalanced budget) went on minus the minority Deputies. That did not mean that the Opposition was not present. The Opposition was there, very much there, loudly protesting that per capita taxation was considerably higher...
...Slovaks, as early as the Pittsburgh meeting of 1917. For reasons ascribable to conditions in Central Europe and to the youth of the Republic, none of these promises has been honored. By the Constitution of 1920, the Czecho-Slovak State is a single and indivisible unity. Hence, as a protest, the minority Deputies declined to attend Parliament. ? Austria and Hungary, states contiguous to Czecho-Slovakia, have financial controllers acting under the authority of the League of Nations...
...gentlemanly tradition of the College is challenged. A long series of abuses of reading room privileges has provoked a very moderate protest, printed elsewhere, from the harassed Librarian. The disclosure of stealing, mutilation, and abuses of purposely lenient rules but repeats common knowledge; the student body is well aware that some users of the library are robbing the rest by mean and annoying practices. The whole gamut of petty crime, from defacement of pictures and pages to temporary removal or real theft, is traversed by a few, too inconsiderate of others and too greedy of their own convenience...