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Word: mission (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Radio listeners thrilled as the assassin said, "Madre Concepción was merely the final drop of water which caused the overflow of my cup of intention. She had no inkling that I was preparing for my mission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Ladies & Gentlemen | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

...many, nominee for the Senate in New York, was third of the G. O. P. spokesmen to plead with Missouri. He went at Nominee Hoover's special request. This request breathed life into one of the most delicate political relations of the season. Soon after Mr. Houghton's mission was announced, arrived a letter from Frank Orren Lowden of Illinois, Nominee Hoover's long-sulking rival for last June's nomination. It was the first utterance of any moment that Mr. Lowden had made since withdrawing from the Kansas City convention. The Lowden letter was to Nominee Houghton. not Nominee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaigners | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

...Lutherans learned to their dismay that although $50,000 has been spent in Africa in two years of mission work, only one convert has espoused the faith. They learned, too, that in 68 years of carrying the light of faith in the dark continent, not one native congregation has been formed. Disheartening though this information was, the convention voted to continue its activities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Philadelphia Snubbed | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

Pads at 33? or 52? depending on the size, and rubber sheets at 69?, have a mission in your life and don't let Mother hold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Advts of the Week | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

...Frey was secretary of the first labor mission sent to allied countries in 1918 and he accompanied Samuel Gompers as a member of the second mission. Last year he was appointed by President Coolidge as labor advisor to the American delegates attending the International Economic Conference in Geneva...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FREY TO DELIVER NEXT OF WERTHEIM LECTURES | 10/25/1928 | See Source »

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