Word: missionize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more conservative O Jornal said: "Miss Brazil's mission has grown to proportions that none expected. . . . Her smile brings the two republics closer than arduous diplomacy. We Brazilians are grateful to the Americans for the distinctions shown to our countrywomen. Public opinion is grateful to the great sister republic of the North which each day becomes more beloved by Brazilians...
...committee of members of the American Institute of Architects appointed by the Treasury Department, the Fine Arts Committee of the District of Columbia, the Supervising Architect and the United States Public Buildings Com-mission approved and recommended the use of Indiana Limestone for at least the first two buildings, those for the Bureau of Internal Revenue and the Department of Commerce...
...unclassified member of the com-mission is the one woman on it, Miss Ada Louise Comstock, stately, broad-minded president of Radcliffe College. As a political independent, she has kept her Prohibition views strictly to herself. Soon after her appointment she was asked, of course, if she was related to the late great Reformer Anthony Comstock. She replied: "There is no traceable connection." Her legal credo is this: "I believe in as few rules as possible and a rigid enforcement of the rules that do exist...
...star; From which I look on death beneath as a shadow Thrown from a mountain by the rising sun; . . . the love of truth, The love of love, in spite of all the loss, The anguish, reckless hatred of our kind Sustain and justify and help to prove The inscrutable mission of the million years, In -which each incident is destiny...
...were announced yesterday. At the same time it was also announced that Professor James Haughton Woods '87 of the Department of Philosophy would be on a leave of absence for the first half of 1929-30. He has been invited by the Harvard-Yenching Institute to go on a mission to China...