Word: missionizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perhaps lacking an opening in major league managerial circles, the retired home run king has assumed the portenous mission of swatting cricket balls all over the field so persistently as to achieve the complete and permanent ruin of the English national game. That would be something to rank with our own Boston Tea Party...
Months ago General Huang Mu-sung of the Nationalist Government led a Chinese mission deep into Tibet to see what effect all this kindness, all this money had had. The time seemed most propitious. The British-controlled Dalai Lama had died in December 1933, and according to immemorial tradition his spirit was announced to have found residence in the body of a small button-eyed Tibetan moppet, chosen by wheel-spinning Buddhist priests. Until he reaches his majority the new Dalai Lama will be shut up in a monastery and the country will be governed by a Regency. Nobody knew...
...such Uniat sect, the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, two friends began laboring years ago. Nicholas Shumsky and Andrew Sarmatiuk took wives, each performing a marriage ceremony for the other. They went to Canada, a mission field of their church. Father Sarmatiuk begat two children. Used as they were to married priests in the old country, the Ukrainians whom they shepherded saw nothing unusual about the status of the two fathers. But Mother Church did. In her ponderous, methodical way she discovered that the marriages, respectively 20 and 14 years old, were invalid. Fathers Shumsky and Sarmatiuk had broken the rules...
...press gallery of the House of Representatives sat the towering portly owner of the Houston Chronicle. He was availing himself of his prerogatives as a publisher, but he was not present on any journalistic mission. In fact, Chairman Jesse Jones was present for the perfectly good reason that he wanted to see on what terms his Reconstruction Finance Corp. would be given a new lease on life. Neither Mr. Jones nor any one else had any doubt that the one Recovery agency which has been an unquestionable success in its field would be continued beyond the date on which...
History 24b, given by Professor E. C. Moore and dealing with the spread of Christianity and the growth of the Chrian Church in the 19th century, will be open, not only to those who have taken 24a, but to all who are interested in missions or mission study...