Word: missionize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...British doctors dealt frankly with the monks. They- Drs. Sydney A. Monckton Copeman and Major Greenwood were on a, mission for the Ministry of Health to learn how much influence a vegetarian and a flesh diet had in causing cancer. Was cancer more prevalent among carnivores than among flesh-abstainers, or the opposite? It would be possible, scientists reasoned, to segregate batches of humans, like laboratory mice, and study the effects of diets. But that would be inconvenient. Then a keen mind in the Ministry of Health fixed attention on the Roman Catholic monasteries in England. The monks living...
...Mission Committee carries on the work of philanthropy a step farther. In addition to arranging lectures and meeting for men interested in missionary work and maintaining contact with Harvard men engaged in such work, it conducts a Daily Vacation Bible School during the summer for some fifty Cambridge children. This school is as a rule under the leadership of a Harvard man. It gives the children two hours a day of handwork, singing, Bible study, and exercise...
Foochow. Nationalist soldiers looted the mission quarter of Foochow, a sizable southern sea port, abducted hundreds of Chinese orphan girls cared for by the missionaries, and forced the Spanish Bishop Aguirre to flee by sea to Hongkong. British and Y, M. C. A. missions were also looted...
...They had decided that it was incumbent upon them to furnish future citizens with "internal control" now that those declining agencies, the home and the church were no longer effective and now that society was abandoning "external control." The teachers of Oregon were feeling the full unction of their mission-and were now waiting to be addressed by that great champion of public education, the ousted president of the university of the great neighboring state of Washington, Dr. Henry Suzzallo...
...Louis Glassman, perpetrator of 110 burglaries and several jail breaks, asked for a Bible in the Springfield (Ill.) jail last week. None could be found on the premises; jailers rushed to a neighbor- hood mission, satisfied the convict...