Word: missionize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last Ambassador Herrick appeared. The reporters explained their mission and the news they brought...
...definitely known that Bolivia's richest man was in the U. S. on a business mission. But what that business was nobody knew; though it was darkly hinted that the mission was concerned with the organization of a $50,000,000 corporation "which is to administer part of his property in Brazil...
Many rumors went on circuit. Sterling-ten cents off par-was to be brought to parity; new methods of paying the British War debt were to be formed; a modification of the debt agreement was sought; the Governor was on a secret mission for the British Government...
...platitude that Germany has not carried out faithfully her treaty obligations. Recently the Allied Military Control Mission (a body established to see that Germany observed the disarmament clauses of the Versailles Treaty) returned from Germany. It is at present in Paris preparing its report for presentation to the Council of Ambassadors-a body composed of Allied Diplomats accredited to France, meeting at Paris under the presidency of the French Foreign Minister (Premier Herrin), whose functions are to decide questions arising from the treaties of peace...
...Aesthete: Model 1924, first published in the maiden issue of The American Mercury, gave Mr. Boyd the intense satisfaction of stirring to obscene and frenzied anger a whole Greenwich Village nestful of half-baked literati whose baseless pretensions to significance it is Mr. Boyd's spirited but impersonal mission in life to deny. The Yeats, Moore and Stephens portraits, while of small dimensions, are of a purity which few contemporary critics could well equal. Add to these considerations the facts that Mr. Boyd is the thorough master of several languages, both dead and alive; that he is as industrious...