Word: missionize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...passed out of a side entrance, followed a brick walk eastward to the White House, lunched téte-a-téte in the sombre State Dining Room. Their talk was of the World Court, the possible U. S. membership therein, and of Mr. Root's unofficial mission to Geneva next month to assist in the revision of the Court's statutes. The President was interested...
...President Cabrera sent Assassin Jiron to the U. S. on a secret mission. His instructions included going to Mt. Vernon and piously laying a wreath on George Washington's Tomb...
...Barnett busied themselves with papers. They asked Jackson to sign them. He did so by smudging his thumb in ink and across the documents. One of the men (Barnett guessed they were lawyers) later told him that he had given to the American Baptist Home Mission Society $550,000 of his royalty oil account, and a like amount to his wife...
...Yale News has recently published an editorial advising the undergraduate who wishes to lead an outdoor life to go to Labrador with the Crenfell Mission to play Good Samaritan to God's frozen children. The laudable, or lamentable tendencies of Labrador missionaries in the past has been to return happily married to one no more, certainly--of the missionary nurses. Since the career of an undergraduate at Yale automatically ends at the altar rail, this place of advice may prove like the boomerang which circles back to decapitate its thrower. If the Yale student returns unmarried, the chances...
...active in some phase of Brooks House work, while the graduate secretary and the staff secretary will be appointed by the Phillips Brooks House Committee with the suggestion and approval of the Cabinet. The Executive Committee, the Librarian, and the Chairman of the Social Service, Foreign Student. Harvard Mission, Chapel, and Speakers Committees will be appointed by the graduate secretary with the advice of the Cabinet, as will the chairmen of the Graduate, Dental, Medical, and Law School Committees