Word: missionize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dampierres of France regard each other with proud, polite disfavor?much as a prize Angora stares at a haughty Pekingese. Last week the French government sent to the U. S. on the maiden voyage of the French line's sumptuous new cabin class liner Lafayette an "official mission," consisting of the Marquis Jacques de Dampierre, the marquise, their son Count Henri de Dampierre and his countess. These personages the government officially called "descendants" of the great French hero of the American Revolution: General the Marquis Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Dumotier de La Fayette...
...motor ship" (that is, with Diesel instead of steam propulsion), the Lafayette is the largest liner of this advanced type in the French merchant marine. As she was warped into her Manhattan pier not only New York but Virginia officially welcomed the mission Dampierre. In their famed colonial uniforms, Virginia's historic Monticello guard stood at stiffest attention. Just so their ancestors stood to be reviewed by General de La Fayette...
...most of its citizens, be dismembering an empire. No longer could Texas brag of the fact that it grew more cotton (five million bales), produced more oil, than any other State. In such a split-up, North Texas would lose the historic glory of The Alamo (Roman Catholic mission at San Antonio cruelly
Although this building, since its construction in 1858, has been a gymnasium, the Germanic Museum, a paint shop and a Naval Science class room, it has each time become inadequate. Its last mission will be to help along the growth of dramatics at Harvard. The decision has not yet been reached as to whether the building will be used for the presentation of plays or the concentration of the various departments of the School, including the offices and the workshop for stage scenery construction. In either case the City's generous act marks a definite step forward in the development...
...member of society who can afford to overlook this living philosophy. The leaders of the coming generation, especially, should consider themselves ignorant unless they keep step with the principles and practice of education. The "Awakening College" acts both as a stimulus and a text book in fulfilling this mission...