Word: andrews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...patents were granted by the Cabinet, signed by the President. On July 4, 1836, Andrew Jackson signed an act creating, as part of the Department of State, a separate Patent Office headed by a commissioner.* First patent under this jurisdiction went to Senator John Ruggles of Maine, for a system of cog gears...
Less than a year ago, Pearl Syden-stricker Buck published a sympathetic portrait of her mother called The Exile (TIME, Jan. 13). In that affectionate volume, Carrie Sydenstricker, sensible missionary and patient mother, far overshadowed her husband Andrew. He emerged as a zealous, absent-minded man who was constantly pushing deeper into China to gather converts of doubtful loyalty and understanding. Good, unquestioning, self-righteous, he caused Carrie more suffering than he knew. This week in another purely biographical volume that is the December choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club, Pearl Buck gets around to giving her father...
...Andrew was tall, bony, large-faced, the son of a hot-tempered West Virginia landowner, born into what the neighbors said was the "preachingest family in Greenbrier County, with dissenting blood as strong as lye." When he got the call to be a missionary nothing could stop him, neither the opposition of his father, his lack of resources nor the five years he had to spend on the farm before he could start college at the age of 21. Daughter Pearl Buck asked him how he had proposed to Carrie, when he was ready to take her along...
...Bucks started to China as soon as they were married. No romantic, Andrew thought Carrie's seasickness on the way over was all foolishness. He was sure she could feel better if she made an effort. As they started for the interior after Carrie had had four wisdom teeth pulled without anesthetics they returned because complications developed. "It was very inconvenient," Andrew later confessed to his daughter, "but we started again with a delay of a little under two hours. I was eager to get at my work...
...Chinese called Andrew "The Fool about Books." He preached, baptized, quarreled savagely with his brother missionaries, staked out for his domain a territory the size of Texas. In some villages dogs were set on him, in some he was beaten, in one he was captured by bandits. But in most the Chinese listened patiently and politely. They thought he was probably a good man, a little possessed, who was doing some religious penance. Carefully totting up each soul he had saved every year, Andrew was inclined to be doubtful about the women converts. "They haven't much real idea...