Word: missionize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the august patrons of Surgeon Voronoff sent him forth, upon a yacht, for eastern Mediterranean waters. Officially he was on a mission to the French Mandate Of Syria, there to improve the wool yield of native goats by gland grafting, as he has already done with sheep in Algeria (TIME, Aug.11...
...sent Robert Koch* into Egypt from which he emerged with the Vibrio cholerae, cause of all the trouble. Work on the troublesome organism has not ceased since that time. During the last epidemic the British Government appointed Dr. Felix d'Herelle, world renowned bacteriologist, head of a special mission to India to study cholera. Last month he returned to Paris victorious. The bacteriophage** which is liberated by Vibrio cholerae, discovered by d'Herelle in 1917, had eradicated the disease and immunized the population of large areas...
...annual banquet last night in the Living Room of the House. Assisting the newly elected officers in carrying on the policies of the Association will be the following men: R. S. Holden '29, chairman of the Social Service Committee, P. M. Sheldon '30, chairman of the Harvard Mission Committee, J. S. Frame '29, chairman of the Chapel Committee, W. N. Bump '29, chairman of the Lectures Committee, E. D. Emigh '30, chairman of the Speakers' Bureau, D. P. Tucker '29, chairman of the Deputations Committee, C. W. Lowry E.T.S., secretary of the Graduate Schools Society, C. H. Willard 3L., secretary...
...Chicago to investigate what might be new evidence. Since Senator Nye is Chairman of the Senate Committee on Public Lands, which is charged with the investigation, it was logical to entrust him with the errand. That it was unfortunate soon became apparent. The importance of his mission overcame him and he returned hinting breathlessly that his findings involved "a name that it would be criminal to mention until further investigation." The name of Warren Gamaliel Harding soon leaked out. The Committee was reviewing the sale in 1923 of President Harding's Marion Star for a surprising price. No bonds traceable...
...moves swiftly through generations down to Arthur Levy, intelligent psychiatrist, in contemporary U. S. Mr. Levy marries a Christian woman, has a child by her. But he is troubled about his race, hurt by the slurs of Nordics; so he finally leaves his family to go on a Jewish mission in the Balkans. The thesis is that a Jew cannot lead a full and intellectually free life on earth when he does as Gentiles do. Many critics have passionately praised this book, but an epic is seldom written when an author is straining so mightily to create...