Word: intact
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dust in a London cemetery, Karl Marx lives on in the turgid periods of Das Kapital and in the reverent thoughts of all right-minded Communists. That other god of the Soviet Olympus, Nikolai Lenin, remains visible in Moscow where science has kept the Russian Dictator's corpse intact for eleven years. Last week the Lenin tomb was closed to the public while Soviet workers busily installed air-conditioning equipment with a view to preserving the sacred remains for at least a century more...
...scientific purposes, additional glycerin is pumped in at intervals to prevent shrinkage. Near-natural color could have been obtained by adding an aniline dye to the embalming fluid. The American Academy of Embalming last week declared that a corpse embalmed in 1889 is still undiminished in size and intact except for loss of weight and a deep tan color...
...upbringing have given him an approach to life which is best suited to him. While opening one's mind to intellectual stimuli of all kinds, one should take care not to confuse principles with knowledge. Only if the two are kept in their true position can the former remain intact, and the latter be increased...
...save time he had promised to "take along to conference" a swarm of other, minor amendments. By 40 to 39 the Senate had approved Senator Borah's amendment lifting tax exemption from future issues of Federal securities. Otherwise the Finance Committee's bill had been passed intact. Bob La Follette's politically preposterous notion that the bill should be turned into a respectable revenue raiser by taxing the "little fellow" had been shrugged off with two decisive votes. Share-the-Wealther Huey Long had not even bothered to attend the session...
Democracy is intact when parliament, no matter how great the panic, refuses to grant unlimited powers to the Executive. This test the Deputies and Senators of France met by defying every Premier or would-be Premier who insisted on "full powers" during the crisis (TIME, June 3, 10). They settled down only when a peasant-born statesman of sturdy fibre asked them last week to support him as Premier by granting his Cabinet not "full powers" but carefully restricted extraordinary power for stated and specific purposes. Even this the Chamber voted with extreme reluctance, so ingrained is French dislike...