Word: mission
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rousing marches, but strange and awesome chants. This lyricism, now solo, now antiphonal, now choral, is a poetic, formalized utterance. The diction is abominable-words can only be guessed at-but the import of these Gaelic spirituals can be felt. Mystic and throbbing, they express the soldiers' gruesome mission and man's revolt from the ghastliness he has made for himself...
Death last month took John Gardner Murray, Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Bishop Murray left a will. But strangely unlike the bequest of a prince of the Church was this last testament. No hospital or needy mission gained by the primate's death. All his estate Bishop Murray left to his wife; there were no bequests to charities...
Trade. The opening of large South American markets to British goods was predicted by Viscount D'Abernon of Stoke D'Abernon, oldtime diplomat, just back from a trade mission (TIME, Sept. 23) to that continent...
...Senator King with questions to show that the industry was not as depressed as its leaders made out. For this the potters unsuccessfully attempted to have him discharged from the Commission's employ. The chief complaint against Mr. Koch was the man who had given him his Com-mission job-William Burgess of Pennsylvania, onetime (1921-1925) Tariff Commissioner, now vice-president of U. S Potters Association. Lobbyist Burgess, now 72, denied he was a lobbyist, but explained that the potters paid him $7,500 per year to represent them in Washington. The National Electrical Manufacturers Association paid...
Writing of Owen in his roll call of Gridiron Greatness -- 1919-1929 -- Mr. Trevor asserts: "George Owen of Harvard confessed that he disliked football, but his opponents never would have suspected this aversion. Owen's particular mission in life was picking on Yale. He had only to walk on the field to beat the Elis. They were 'hexed...