Word: conveys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus did Col. Arthur Wagner, chief of the U. S. Bureau of Military Intelligence, convey to Lieut. Andrew Summers Rowan the wish of President McKinley that he seek, in the jungles of Cuba, Lieut.-Gen. Calixto Garcia, insurgent Cuban leader, carry to him a McKinley message, ascertain the size and strength of Spanish forces...
...last week and said he was King George's new Minister from the Irish Free State. President Hoover, in U. S. diplomatic uniform,* received him in the Blue Room. Offering his letter of credence Minister MacWhite said: "My government has entrusted to me the very agreeable mission of conveying to you their most sincere good wishes for the continued and increasing prosperity of the great people whose destinies are committed to your care." Replied President Hoover: "I will ask you to convey to your Government my cordial and friendly greetings and my best wishes for the welfare and prosperity...
...other consideration be of some weight? If placed in the midst of, and more or less obscured by other buildings which crowd around, it cannot have the inspiring effect nor convey the significance which is desirable. Whereas on the river driveway it might stand forth somewhat like the famous Stump of old Boston and it would impress on all, on students as well as the public, that Harvard cares and stands for spiritual values. Robert Treat Paine...
Since the U. S. is not a League member state, there next arose the delicate question of how Aristide Briand might properly convey the good news from Bolivia to Frank Billings Kellogg. As French Foreign Minister, M. Briand could have addressed Mr. Kellogg in his capacity of Secretary of State; but as chairman of the League Council, M. Briand could not so address...
...education not as a tool to enable them to be useful. To men who prize a Harvard education, or any education, not for its value to something to be determined later, but for the opportunity which it offers for individual growth free of curbing restraint, the phrase will convey a meaning not in accord with what they have conceived, to be the glory of Harvard...