Word: missions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...America's mission is to vulgarize the world," said Thomas Carlyle. I think he is borne out by your account of the doings in Washington of so-called society under the Democratic Administrations [TIME, March...
Fights in Nanking between soldiers and anti-government student demonstrators injured 144 persons late yesterday following departure of an official mission to talk peace with the Chinese Communists. The students charged the government was making insincere peace overtures and that it actually was preparing for continued civil war. They also demanded better living conditions and attacked "American imperialism...
...year later, back home in Brooklyn, they heard that Conductor Zipper was in the U.S. on a cultural mission for the Philippines. They buttonholed him with a proposition: if they could form a Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra, would he stay and conduct it? Said 45-year-old Herbert Zipper: "They were so earnest . . . besides, it was a creative challenge." He stayed...
During the war Emmons helped design and construct the Army's first large supersonic wind tunnel, which was used for research on bombs, projectiles and guided mission. At present he is consultant to several groups conducting research for the armed forces...
...more than a rough sketch for a novel. It wavers between a sympathetic view of Aaron's religious questionings and a breezy freethinker's ridicule of the pretensions of the faithful. It likewise wavers between its realistic portrait of prairie life and its satirical account of the mission to the Indians-with the Indians educated, civilized and urbane, and the whites cantankerous and benighted...