Word: missionize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reader McNulty makes his point. Henceforth there will be no more unpronounceable TIME words, but TIME will be the judge, radiorator will stay but SECommission will be SEC Com-mission...
...paraphernalia complete with Soviet military experts into the anti-Japanese camp, yet leaving Moscow technically guiltless of having taken hostile action against Tokyo. According to the Nanking version, last week Soviet Ambassador to China Dmitry Vasilevich Bogomolov, who recently flew from Nanking to Moscow on a secret mission (TIME, Oct. 18), is about to fly back with news that Outer Mongolia will soon rejoin China with the blessing...
...call for at least 20 juries "to exhibit a cross section of the growing public sentiment against liquor." Philadelphia's 20 juries represented not only the usual teachers, parents, businessmen, high-school students, ministers, mothers but a jury of twelve "redeemed men" from the city's Whosoever Mission. The chief justice (Judge Welsh) read them a charge which urged them to consider whether Alcohol is guilty of various capital crimes committed by people under its influence, of causing poverty, insanity and bodily disability. The juries could, if they wished, make use of "canned" verdicts written by Dr. Russell...
...Horan and two colleagues, before a Chicago tribunal investigating the sanctity of Mother Cabrini, an Italian-born U. S. citizen who died in Chicago in 1917 (TIME, Sept. 18, 1933). The tribunal declared that the triple healing was "a wonder performed by supernatural power as sign of some special mission, and explicitly ascribed to God." In Manhattan last fortnight declared Dr. Horan, a Catholic: "The average man does not believe in miracles...
From this early section the Journal jumps to 1832, when Delacroix accompanied a French diplomatic mission to Morocco. His notes on the most vivid adventure of his life are clipped, wholly objective, brilliantly businesslike, set down only to help him remember details of what he saw. Some of them are like a modern Imagist poem or a sketch for a cinema continuity: "The entrance to the castle: The Guardsmen in the court, the faÇade, the lane between two walls. At the end, under a sort of vault, men seated, making a brown silhouette against...