Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the increasing interest, which the world has shown in its work, the scope of the mission has now widened considerably. It now not only attends to the transient fisher population, but also to the natives who are found to be quite intelligent when afforded an opportunity for education. From the one hospital on the ship, the mission has grown to have four hospitals on land, and in addition to this a number of churches, schools, and libraries. It is in order to run these establishments that the mission each year calls for volunteers who pay their own expenses...
...lecture was an attempt, by means of slides, to give Botsonians an idea of the scope and value of the largest theatre collection in the world. He traced the rise of the theatre in England and America from the Elizabethan days of the Garrick down through Edmund Kean and Sir Henry Irving to the twentieth century with Cyril Maude and Julia Marlowe...
...laymen, it is famous among actors, dramatic critics, and historians of the drama. A well known professor at Columbia, in writing a history of the drama, has spent most of his time and found most of his material on the top floor of Widener Library, so great is the scope and rarity of the collection...
This was magnified into imminent importance by the U. S. press. London, Paris, Rome and Tokyo were being "informally approached." The forthcoming' conference would "deal with matters outside the scope of the Washington Naval Treaty and would probably include aerial but not land armaments." The inevitable "high authority at Washington" stated that foundations for the conference were being laid...
These past many months, the Presbytery of New York-about the only unit in the Presbyterian Church which is predominantly Liberal-has prepared for a series of meetings generally described as "revivals." But two churches, staunchly Fundamental, withdrew from the revival's scope. Said the pastor of one: "We were informed that the Presbyterian ministers of the city would interchange pulpits for two weeks. My session gave that prayerful attention. We concluded unanimously that the time was 'ill-advised.' " Said the pastor of the other: "No, sir! I am not inviting any Modernists up here to give...