Word: departing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...band of 30 self-appointed U. S. investigators, organized by Congregationalists, will depart at their own expense for Mexico as the year opens, to investigate thoroughly religious, economic and educational conditions...
...last few years the educational policy of the College has tended to depart even more than previously from a system of paternalism and petty disciplinary restraints. Notable instances of this tendency are the greater freedom allowed to Seniors in the ordering of their courses of study, and in the privilege of unlimited cuts...
...individual income tax is largest per capita in the home of Henry Ford. It offers no numbers to illustrate what Detroiters do with their money after they have earned it, but one may presume that if the home town does not offer sufficient entertainment, they are at liberty to depart for points less wealthy and more amusing. Fortunately one does not have to remain on the scene of one's labors--not but that Detroit is the most charming of cities; on the contrary...
Siege raised. The far city of Sianfu, capital of Shensi province, besieged by an itinerant mercenary army for some months (TIME, Oct. 18 et ante) allegedly compromised with its besiegers last week, and as a result the 31 foreign missionaries shut up there since mid-April were able to depart last week. All left the city save the Rev. C. J. Jensen and his wife, and a number of Roman Catholic missionaries, who announced their intention of remaining indefinitely...
...great danger that always faced the primitive in his loyalties lay in the very strength of his allegiance, that strength of his allegiance, that strength which kept the totem valid long after its vital life-force had disappeared. The formal totem became sc fixed that life could depart from it, yet its magic suffered not, for man breaks his idols and his gods but reluctantly and a dead and meaningless symbol is better than no totem at all. And the very enthusiasm with which the artificial loyalty is buoyed does hurt to the reality and the force of the totem...