Word: heralds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Foreign Missions assembled in Manhattan to fight the grim reality of a deficit. The Board was $2,225,000 in debt. The proposal to reduce its missionary work by 25% was promptly rejected. What to do? Up stood Dr. L. O. Hartman, Editor of the onetime Zion's Herald. He proposed that every member of the Board should give his gold watch to the cause. Luther B. Wilson, famed Bishop, at once saw the point. He took out his watch, went to the table, laid it down. In the pocket of Bishop Grose ticked the timepiece of the late...
Comment. New York Herald-Tribune : "Claims for a specific nostrum . . . appear with such frequency . . . that France fears it to be another case of crying 'Wolf! Wolf...
...Majestic (White Star) ? Ogden M. Reid, proprietor of The New York Herald-Tribune; John D. Ryan, Chairman of the Anaconda Copper Mining Co.; Mrs. Tom Mix, wife of the cinema actor; John Murray Anderson and James Reynolds, producer and designer of The Greenwich Village Follies...
...certain Western professor, however, disturbs this idyllic revelry by shouting rudely that not only are college students neither intelligent nor cultural, but that they have no desire to be; and the New York "Herald-Tribune", in an editorial which is reprinted herewith, completes the sacrilege by insinuating that the college itself is responsible for this barbaric state of intellectual apathy...
Whatever the reason or the combination of reasons for his coming, it is obvious, as the Herald-Tribune almost points out, that once the candidate has involuntarily located himself with the academic gates, the logical thing for his official and self-constituted advisers to do is to acquaint him with the value of a liberal education, both in itself and as a means to other ends. This is done by a variety of methods, chief among which is an exaltation of the theory of "mens sana in corpora sane", and a reduction of the learning process to a series...