Word: missionize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Goethe Had Mission in Life...
...Goethe believed he had a mission in life. No man has ever accomplished anything, great and small, unless he believed in his mission. Goethe conceived his mission in life to be primarily ethical, not aesthetic. The poet, he says, is at the same time teacher, prophet, friend of gods...
...Czecho-Slcvakian debt mission arrived in Washington and opened negotiations with the U. S. debt commission, for the funding of Czechoslovakia's reconstruction debt of $117,000,000 to the U. S. Dr. Wilem Pospisil, Director of the Savings Bank of Prague, heads the foreign negotiators. The rest of the commission consists of Karel Kucera, Karel Barbenec, Dr. Eugene Lippansky, Zikmund Konecny and the new Czech minister to the U. S., Colonel Fierlinger...
...Italy newspapers were pessimistic over the prospect of a debt settlement with the U. S. because of the French failure, but it was announced that the Italian debt mission will sail for the U. S. on Oct. 20 in spite of the prospect...
...happy to be in touch once more with their home continent. The Peary, with the expedition's Navy seaplanes lashed on deck, had fared similarly. Nosing on southward, the Bowdoin ran aground, snapped her mainsail gaff in a sharp squall. At last the buildings of the Grenfell Mission loomed on the shore of Battle Harbor. After a brief stop there, the pilgrims pushed off on their journey's last leg for Wiscasset, Me., bringing with them no news of a new continent below the Pole, but an exotic story of soaring over mile upon murderous mile of glacier...