Word: convey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mission and my purpose," said Mr. Hsieh, "is to convey the great thanks of my master. Regent Pu Yi, to the august Emperor of Japan for so swiftly conferring diplomatic recognition upon Manchukuo...
...their present form. Missionaries should no longer preach routine hellfire to brown and yellow men. "Western Christianity ... is less a religion of fear and more a religion of beneficence." With the rise of a "basic world-culture," arises the question, "Why the missionary need leave his home to convey his message?" . . . Resurging nationalism is a danger to missionizing in the East. Christianity should not be identified with Western life but presented in its "universal capacity." Nor should Christianity attack the non-Christian systems of religion; it should understand them, associate itself with their "kindred elements." Christianity's chief argument...
...Since I read what Governor Murray had to say about Hoover. I have heard many prominent Democrats in political speeches pay their respects to the President in exactly the same words which Governor Murray used in his Charlotte speech. I don't know that the speakers tried to convey the impression that they were the authors of this bit of sarcasm thrown at Mr. Hoover, but I can say that every time the expression was used it brought down the house...
...paper money is a little better than the average trading-stamp, and a trifle inferior to the usual tobacconist's rebate coupon. . . . The words are there and the letters are there?evidently graphic signs intended to convey a meaning?but they are inscribed in such a fashion and distributed in such a way that every effort of the mind to grasp their significance is frustrated. . . . And this document?this singular document?stands as the prime symbol of value in the infinite transactions of a great commercial nation. It is worth its face in gold, but, my God! what a face...
...More restricted in field than the late Joseph Pennell, Mr. Beneker has undertaken to show only the art of steel manufacture and the men who engage in the task. Unlike the etchings of Pennell which represent merely the image that reaches the human eye, the rich oils of Beneker convey all the realism of being, and all the strength and solidity of steel. Perhaps it is the medium in which the work is done that accounts for the difference; the paintings depict with more life-like fidelity and color the shapes of qualities of things, the stylus tends to tinge...