Word: missionize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Washington as a Congressman. At 33, he was elected Governor of Tennessee. Two years later, married, but soon after, his wife left him. He resigned and went to Arkansas to live with the Cherokees; there he married a half-breed. In 1832, President Jackson sent him on a mission to the Indians of Teras. Jackson remarked: "Thank God, there is one man at least in Texas who was made by the Almighty and not by a tailor." Indeed, Houston looked it: 6 ft. 3 in. in moccasins, straight as an arrow, with deep, flashing eyes, high forehead, dressed like...
...touch of the medieval is being transplanted to the Cambridge bank of the Charles river, where on Memorial Drive just above Boylston street, the Society of St. John the Evangelist is building its new monastic mission house. Eventually this new building will be the mother house of the society in this country, superceding the quarters now occupied at 33 Bowdoin street, Boston. At present, however, none of the new plant is in use except the little chapel, St. Francis' House, which for over a year has been used as the order's chapel for the University...
...administering to the needs of Harvard students are living in a small house at 14 Oxford street, rented from the University. At their head is the Rev. Granville M. Williams, although the work is under the general supervision of the Rev. Spence Burton '04, father superior of the Boston mission...
...however. One of the groups that met in a place called Albany, in New York, was presided over by Elihu Root, who has held many more important posts-those of Secretary of State and Secretary of War, for example, and Ambassador Extraordinary at the head of the special diplomatic mission to Russia...
...retrial of onetime Captain Jacques Sadoul, who was sentenced to death in absentio in 1919 for deserting to the Bolsheviki while a member of the French Military Mission, began...