Word: missionize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...renger, as everyone knows, was a member of the ill-fated Caillaux debt mission (TIME, Oct. 5, 12) which set itself a rigid limit of seven days in which to beat down Secretary Mellon's terms, and departed in dudgeon when "Wizard" Caillaux was unable to do much more than exasperate everybody during that period. He took back to France, as everyone knows, only a stopgap U. S. offer to accept $40,000,000 a year for five years as a full discharge on the interest of the French debt for those years. The Painlevé Cabinet, in which...
Sturgis is a member of the Glee Club, the Musical Club, and is also on the undergraduate committee of the Harvard Mission...
...missionary movement became a storm centre when Dr. R. E. Diffendorfer, fatherly secretary of the Methodist Board of Foreign Missions, beamed down from the platform and addressed someone as "my boy." Amid angry growls and mutterings from the audience, a loud voice vociferated, as reported in public prints: "Youth has been 'my-boyed' by a lot of old dunderheads until it's fed up. That's why this conference is here." Y. T. Wu, a Chinese delegate, charged that the mission movement is a growth forced on China at the point of the sword...
...Cooperative Society to close its doors. Mr. G. E. Cole, the manager, declared that "The next time anything like this happens we are going to have lanterns ready, and not depend upon candles." Mr. Cole posted a sentry armed with a flashlight at the front entrance to determine the mission of all comers. The danger of robbery at the time was acute, but no startling disturbances occurred...
...reporters "Mr. Zero" cried: "That mission kicks the poor bums out at 5 a. m. even on Sunday, when there's no chance to get work. . . . People ask me what my game is. I have no game. I merely try to do good...