Word: mystic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Secretary of Agriculture Wallace pushed his land reclamation program ahead another notch by organizing a party to search for a grass hardy enough to grow in the drought-made deserts of the Midwest. To head the party he chose a Russian-born mystic who has spent most of his 59 years painting 3,000 pictures and preaching to three continents the gospel of Unifying Humanity Through Art. He was grave, goat-bearded Nicholas Konstantin Roerich, honorary president of Manhattan's Roerich Museum. What made him valuable to Secretary Wallace was that from 1924 to 1929 he painted...
...Emperor Rang Teh (Henry Pu-Yi) of _ Manchukuo. Manhattan's Painter-Philosopher-Mystic Nicholas Konstantin Roerich found a new Head of State upon whom to bestow the Roerich Museum's insignia, first class. Reason: Manchukuo's contribution to world culture...
This morning at the mystic hour of 8 o'clock the sly Seniors will gather in front of Holworthy Hall to go on their annual picnic. In spite of the protests of many years the morning will be made hideous by the blowing of horns and other tortures...
...received scholarships. George Haven Scholarships were presented to Robert L. Bender of Goshen, Indiana; Herbert A. Hughes of Gamas, Washington; John B. McKittrick of Chestnut Hill; Clarence Nelson of San Francisco, California; John C. Nunemaker of Twin Falls, Idaho; Frank Payne, Jr. of Danville, Illinois; Paul G. Purington of Mystic, Connecticut; Lewis G. Shepler of Spokane, Washington; Matthew W. Stevens of Independence, Missouri; and Joseph W. Nadal of Springfield, Missouri...
...mystic sense of sin, no dark preoccupation with the soul, no confessions of failure appear in Dr. Mott's books and speeches. A resolutely practical churchman, he is solid to the point of saying: "Always plan your leisure." While at Cornell, Student Mott wrote out advice to himself which he has since followed: "No worry, no excessive indulgence of the emotions, no doing two hours' work in one hour's time. . . . Have only a few intimates and those the best-for no man rises above the moral level of his intimates. Don't neglect the society...