Word: mission
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...known to the American people for his statistics on the birth rate of the American sucker, but in his autobiography he sedulously avoids the attitude expressed in his famous aphorism. Rather does he paint himself, in loose, easy sentences stuffed with first personal pronouns, as a man with a mission...
Prince Henry of Prussia must have awakened, but he kept himself and his opinion of U. S. yokels concealed until his car was coupled to a through express. His mission (it was in 1902) was to foment good will; and perhaps, when he returned to Germany, he confided only to his "brother Bill" the tale of "Wake up, Hen!" But last week, at Kiel, Prince Henry recalled the story as he celebrated the 50th anniversary of his entrance into the Imperial Navy...
...flag, respect for parents and the home, and the dignity and necessity of honest labor," to be given in all the grade and high schools of the state. The standards which these courses are to meet and the way in which they are to perform their somewhat difficult mission will all be cared for by that worthy individual, the state superintendant of schools...
...other man were indicted for murder; Daughter Snyder, aged 9, was in tears. It remained for some worthy soul to preach a great moral lesson. Mr. Hearst's New York Daily Mirror, which is only excelled in vulgarity by Mr. Macfadden's Daily Graphic, assumed the lofty mission. Beneath the two-inch headline, ''INDICTED!" the Daily Mirror published a full page photograph of Daughter Snyder supported by a nondescript woman in a fur coat and a man looking more like a pious bootlegger than an undertaker. Daughter Snyder's head was bent-her face completely...
...Relations between England and Germany were at their worst in 1911. But from the Haldane Mission in January, 1912 onward, they had steadily improved. The two countries had amicably agreed on their respective spheres of influence in the Portuguese colonies and in Asiatic Turkey...