Word: departing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chicago, close to the South Dakota-Wyoming boundary line, stretches a mountain range known to the Indians as the Paha Sapa (Black Hills). Once they formed part of the Sioux Indian Reservation but when, in 1874, gold deposits were discovered, the red men were quickly served with notices to depart. Later the hills gave sanctuary to horse-thieves, cattle-rustlers and all manner of "wanted" men with blood on their hands and prices on their heads. Now the hills are subdued and subdivided, and populous with tourists. The gasoline station has supplanted the wigwam and the can-opener is more...
...great metropolitan center, the University too often relies on the undoubtedly amusing but nevertheless inhospitable attractions of the city to those who have come not only to enjoy Harvard's academic distinctions but also at least to peer into that illusory thing known as Harvard life. When they depart it is with kindly feelings toward Boston, and towards the scholastic facilities of the University but with a total ignorance of Harvard students as friends and companions...
...Charles MacVeagh, U. S. Ambassador to Japan, scheduled to sail for the U. S. on April 29, instead depart on April 8? Why did he take speedy passage on the British Empress of Canada when U. S. officials are required to patronize U. S. ships whenever possible ? Why did his departure almost immediately follow a conference between his friend, Dwight W. Morrow, of J. P. Morgan & Co., and President Coolidge...
...event other women's husbands have the oddest habit of walking in at all hours of the day and night. Being a lady, Nina tells them to go and go they do--only to return with orchids and dinner invitations. They prove delightful, if inconstant, playboys and when they depart Nina decides that life is a funny proposition but not quite so funny when one has to be both a lady and alone...
...first duty of a newspaper is to survey news, we are devoting our best energy not to discovering the University's shortcomings and seeking to solve its problems but to making the paper more readable and more efficient in covering its field. With this aim it seemed expedient to depart from the custom of publishing an elaborate platform...