Word: missions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were making rubble out of Luis Quintanilla's murals and his studio near University City, he fought with the Leftist infantry in the Guadarrama Mountains, at Toledo and in Madrid. In the fourth month of the war the Government carefully sent him out of danger on a diplomatic mission to France. Last June it let him return for six months of sketching along the front from Madrid to Teruel. After showing his drawings in Barcelona last December, Artist Quintanilla packed them, frames and all, in six padded trunks and took ship for the U. S. In a little studio...
...Grenfell Mission work for college students consists of manual labor and social service...
...undergraduates will be sent to Labrador on the Grenfell Mission this summer with all expenses paid by Phillips Brooks House, it was announced last night by Secor D. Browne '38, Chairman of the Missions Committee...
Hardly one fox terrier owner in ten knows that the historic mission of his dog is to chase foxes down their holes and bring them out. Nowadays not one fox terrier in a hundred does his job. But fortnight ago at Farley, Iowa, Farmer Emmet Simon, hunting with his two terriers-Tuffy and her 5-year-old daughter Spotty-sent them into a fox's den. Tuffy came out, but not Spotty. She had been trapped by a rolling stone...
...eulogistic terms to Benito Mussolini, who originally advised Schuschnigg to go and bargain with Hitler. He firmly announced that the German Government had engaged itself to respect the political and territorial independence of the Austrian State. Then he added, "Austria will stand or fall with her special German mission! Austria has declared herself to be a German State." In words not pleasing to the ears of pagan, Jew-baiting, Communist-hating Nazis, the Chancellor continued: "We are a Christian State, a German State and a Free State-and in this country everyone is equal before...