Word: protested
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...trouble, he stated, dates back to 1861, when the freeing of the serfs opened a path for them into politics. Then the events of the early '90s gave Russia a large and important mass of middle-classmen who were anxious for political power. A gospel of discontent and protest was preached unceasingly and the tendency of Russia was to stretch everything beyond the proper limits...
...home, have them break training, and subject them to the humiliation of being dependents upon their families when many of them have hitherto be help in to support their families. Officers of the general staff, divisional commanders, and the commandants of the training camps are almost unanimous in their protest against the blunder, but their protest against the blunder, but their protests will not be heed unless the War Department hears for the country. --Boston Transcript...
...attitude of protest against special measures of taxation has usually been supposed indigenous in human nature, but the early returns upon the public's acceptance of the increased postal rates might appear to give this tradition defiance. How the bulk of the mails has been affected is not yet announced. What has been observed, however, is the surprising fact that a great many people have been placing three-cents worth of postage both on the letters for delivery outside the Boston district, which require it, and on those for delivery within the district, which do not require it. Apparently...
With the Senior vice-president as chairman, leaders from each class have planned that at Friday's meeting an orderly protest shall be made that Trustees confine their activities to administrative and financial work, that no professors be dismissed without the consent of the particular faculty, and that Professor Beard's resignation be refused...
...last few years. The vociferous martyrdom of Dr. Scott Nearing in the cause of "acadamic freedom," coupled with its demands for three-cent fares in these times of rising operating costs and his recent connection with the People's Council, cast doubt upon the value of his protestations; but certainly there are few more progressive, independent, and pro-American men than Professor Beard, and his clear and voluntary protest should have some effect toward placing the proper forces in control of Dr. Butler and Columbia. C. LAPORTE...