Word: missions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...people," Puck remarks, "discover their mission until it is too late. Perhaps when Anna Dickinson attains her twenty-first year she will find out that her forte is not "Hamlet...
...question as to what reception he had met with from his audiences, he answered: "If you mean those scholars at Boston (laughing heartily), that was a bit of school-boy fun not meant in any sort of malice." Then he entered upon an explanation of his mission in America, respecting many of the admirable platitudes of his lecture here, and praising the American character and our possibilities for the future...
...Attorney General Taft's friends say that he will get the Berlin mission...
...believed in Washington that Secretary Kirkwood will be offered a foreign mission, either Berlin or Vienna, and that Wm. E. Chandler will be secretary of the navy...
PRESIDENT WHITE of Cornell University, who has relinquished the Berlin Mission, has entered into bonds with the Trustees of that University not to accept any political office for four years...