Word: missionize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lenox, Mass., last week, died Henry White, onetime (1905-07) Ambassador to Italy, onetime (1907-09) Ambassador to France, and Peace Commissioner to the Peace Conference at Paris (1918). The younger generation perhaps associates his name chiefly with his Paris mission, though there he played a necessarily subordinate part...
...known as Volcano House) built on the side of the mountain. For some time, however, he has been away on a volcano-studying mission in Alaska. Natives maintain that Pele has grown fond of Dr. Jaggar and that the eruption is her protest against his absence. In support of this theory they say that when, in 1924. Dr Jaggar left Hawaii for a visit to New York, Kilauea promptly became rampant and that its last previous outbreak (1925) came while Dr. Jaggar was traveling in the Orient...
When the 13 U. S. citizens comprising the original Millspaugh Mission arrived in Teheran, five years ago, each one wisely clapped upon his head a Persian variant of the fez, then put on over his business suit a long, ornate Persian robe. The 100% Persian effect of this costume was only slightly marred in Dr. Millspaugh's own case by his spectacles, his small three-cornered mustache, and the high batwing collar peeping out above his robe. The experts, thus garbed, at once began to grapple with Persians and Persian finance...
...been expected to accept bribes, embezzle, cheat. The peasantry have usually chosen for their principal crop that hardy weed, the opium plant, a species of vegetation which requires absolutely no cultivation and fairly luxuriates upon the ideal soil of Persia. Not surprising, then, was the discovery of the Millspaugh Mission that in 1922 there were very few tomans in the Treasury, scarcely an official not addicted to taking bribes and hardly a rich man who did not successfully evade his taxes...
...from the windows of Avery Mission Methodist Episcopal church in the north side of Pittsburgh last week clattered sounds of shouting, crying, handclapping. A joint commission of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church had recommended that the two churches fuse their organizations and their properties and call the combination the United Methodist Episcopal Church. They would be united "under a name that will be universal in meaning and not confine us to any race or country." Members of both denominations were glad. Efforts of 30 years were coming to fruition...