Word: missions
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ministry but disliked such public displays. Said she: "If you really feel you should be a minister, you ought to have enough nerve to go down there." He went. Among those he met at the altar rail was Ruth Fisher, daughter of a wealthy oilman, pledging herself to the mission field. Soon after he graduated from the University of Southern California, they married; later she inherited a sizable sum from her father...
...Even if it had, no New York channel is now available. The Times also has no plans for a fac simile edition, after months of experimental trans mission...
Peruvian Ambassador Alfredo Benavides had an idea, and to sell it he invited the heads of the diplomatic missions in Ottawa to come around for a drink. The idea: a gift to mark the retirement of U.S. Ambassador Ray Atherton (TIME, Aug. 23), dean of Ottawa's diplomatic corps. Ambassador Benavides had no trouble persuading 32 of his colleagues. A silver cigar box, they decided, would be just the thing, and it should be engraved with the signatures of the mission heads...
Mother Agatha, a jolly little lady with twinkling blue eyes, was sent west to settle among the Navahos. Under her, St. Michael's school so flourished that she was picked to run the first Catholic mission among the Winnebago Indians. Finally, in 1932, she went to Xavier...
Thirty years ago British police in Malaya imported 50 headhunting Dvaks from the jungles of North Borneo. Their mission was to hunt down the robber chieftain Chang Lun, whose little band of terrorists ruled the Kinta valley in the border state of Perak, the British Empire's richest tin-mining zone. Armed with six-foot sumpitans (blowpipes) and keen, long-bladed parangs, the naked warriors snaked through the jungles to Chang Lun's hideout and nabbed their...