Word: labrador
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...work is not cut and dried, he said. One starts out to do one thing and usually ends up by accomplishing something else. When Dr. Grenfell started working in Labrador he thought that the most reasonable aid to give to these people was medical aid, for the people were rapidly degenerating physically. He is now educating and clothing these people as well as doctoring them...
...Wilfred T. Grenfell, speaking at the Phillips Brooks House last night, told of the work of the Grenfell Mission and the promising future of Labrador...
...Grenfell has several hospitals along the Labrador coast. These hospitals are not self supporting. Few hospitals are," and it is to be expected that these, built in a poverty stricken region, should be dependent on outside...
Undergraduates have sometimes disappeared into the wilds of Labrador for two months of the summer vacation, and on their return their enthusiasm has been somewhat puzzling to their friends. They have been full of their experiences, but their descriptions have usually fallen short of the facts. Few listeners have more of an idea of Labrador than a vague name on the map of North America, and it is to them that Doctor Grenfell will turn tonight when he speaks of the fascination of his work and what it is accomplishing...
...bolster up an inferior race in a fight against hopeless conditions of living, in an impossible land. It is an attempt to educate a people to take care of themselves, and to make the most of the world in which they live. In laying the foundation for a greater Labrador--a province which will represent more than a mere triangle on the upper-right-hand part of the map, it is "missionary work" in its highest and most practical sense...