Word: missionize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Norman, who is 54 years of age, recently visited the U. S. (TIME, Oct. 20) on a mission that was widely held to be connected with Britain's mooted return to a gold-standard currency. The Governor, who is an Eton man and served through the South African War before he became interested in finance, is as silent as a whole graveyard. Neither U. S. nor British reporters, earnest, inquiring, persistent, could drag from him one word of the portent of his U. S. mission...
Wrote Mr. Roosevelt to Mr. Lodge (Apr. 6, 1910) : "At Rome I had an elegant row. The Pope imposed conditions upon my reception, requiring a pledge-secret or open-that I would not visit and speak to the Methodist Mission. Of course I declined absolutely to assent to any conditions whatever, and the reception did not take place...
...Church Mission to the Deaf, St. Louis...
...these men have been actively engaged in medical work under the leading denominational foreign mission boards...
...daily a mere enlarged version of the official bulletin board and a pleasantly written broadside for faculty opinions is to indict the mental energy and the moral courage of its editors. To make it a propaganda sheet for stand-pattists is to give up the heritage of youth: the mission of reform and reorganization...