Word: missions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Next October she will set sail for the Orient, member of a commission appointed by a group of potent Protestant laymen to study missions in the Far East. In 1934 (aged 70) she will retire from her presidency. Other mission examiners will be: Professor William Ernest Hocking of Harvard (chairman); President Clarence Augustus Barbour of Brown University; Dean Frederic Campbell Woodward of the University of Chicago; Dr. William Pierson Merrill of Manhattan's Brick Presbyterian Church; Professor Rufus Matthew Jones of Haverford College; Dean Henry Spencer Houghton of the University of Iowa College of Medicine; Dean Charles Phillips Emerson...
Wegener. Capt. Ahrenberg then planned to fly in search of Professor Alfred Wegener, head of a German expedition farther north in Greenland, whose mission was similar to that of the British party. Professor Wegener set out from his base last September to take supplies to two men who, like Courtauld, were stationed at a central observation camp on the ice cap. Professor Wegener never returned. Just as Capt. Ahrenberg was about to join the search last week, word was received from a relief expedition which had penetrated to the camp with a powerful portable radio. The occupants of the camp...
...cross. As with George Moore's hero in The Brook Kerith, the agony of the crucifixion and the coma of the burial stripped the Man of his Messiahship. Moore's hero in his revulsion thought he had been wrong: Lawrence's, that his mission was finished. Lawrence's Man showed himself to his disciples but would have nothing more to do with them; he wanted merely to live, and in a fuller way which he had neglected. Till his wounds were healed he lived with a friendly peasant, then he set out on his wanderings...
...were not badly treated," said Miss Nelson. "General Ho gave us coffee and cake while we discussed religion and world politics. His wife is mission-educated. So are many of his advisers. His men are well disciplined. They are executed instantly if caught smoking opium. General Ho is a Communist and objects to being called a bandit. He predicts that Communistic principles will eventually conquer all China...
Critics moving diffidently among the silk hats of the gentry approved Augustus John's state portrait of white-chinned Viscount d'Abernon (Argentine Trade Mission, TIME, Sept. 23, 1929) in the red robes of the Bath, Sir John Lavery's state portrait of mutton-chop-whiskered Lord Lonsdale in the blue robes of the Garter, the ever popular sporting pictures of A. J. Munnings. World wide depression, they noted, had a marked effect in reducing the number of large statues on view...