Word: department
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Year ago Franklin Roosevelt did not let a critical Congressional situation keep him from going fishing off Florida. Last week he had another fishing appointment aboard Vincent Astor's Nourmahal but failed to depart as scheduled. His old friend, intimate adviser and No. 1 secretary, Louis McHenry Howe, lay critically ill in his bedroom on the northwest corner of the White House's second floor. The 64-year-old ex-newshawk was being kept alive by oxygen and drugs in spite of heart disease, pleurisy and asthma. "Critical," "grave," "very critical," "steadily failing strength" told the story...
...Empire's vast subcontinent (TIME, Dec. 3)-by news that at Bombay last week the turbaned and bejeweled Maharajas of India's Chamber of Princes adopted a resolution as follows: "This meeting desires to emphasize that in many respects the bill and the instrument of accession depart from agreements arrived at during the meetings of representatives of the Indian States with members of His Majesty's Government. It regrets to note that the bill and the instrument of accession do not secure those vital interests and fundamental requisites of the States on which they have throughout laid...
...endurance even at the age of 81 and 79 and 73. They mention philosophers, and one of them recalls the day when "the name Spinoza didn't mean any more to me than a mouthwash." At this you laugh out loud; they stare at you sternly, and you hastily depart. You realize, as you leave, that Rome DID fall...
...sleeper' for 26 years, a man removed from the world!" cried M. Ullmo. "What has pardon brought me? Am I favorably impressed by the changes which took place during my quarter century of exile? No! After six months in Europe, I depart forever. Oh, the profound, the illimitable stupidity of a human race which believes itself to be so superior...
...atheist will argue that there is no soul to depart from a corpse, a believer will say that the soul is immortal, but both agree that after death, the body is just a worthless piece of flesh. Why then, give this 98? worth of lifeless meat an all-metal casket costing thousands of dollars, an expensive monument, a shower of floral wreaths and a long line of hired cars filled by hired mourners...