Word: workers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...arriving on the foreign-mission field, the new worker finds himself or herself in a totally foreign moral environment with a radically divergent system of sexual and personal ethics, which he or she is usually not prepared to combat. The possibilities for the stimulation and gratification of the sexual side of the psychic Occidental are more numerous in the Orient, and the continual flaunting of the erotic makes its impression on the unstable personality. If he evades it, it callouses his nature; if he succumbs to its wiles, it erodes him. In either case he may be thrown into...
...late Rodman Wanamaker, who did much to further friendship between the U. S. and France. Men will do much to beautify that which they find most terrible ; thus the urn which is to contribute its comfort to Rodman Wanamaker's grave was fashioned by the fore most iron worker in the world and a great artist: Edgar Brandt...
...Civil War continued War Lord Feng was driven from Peking and retired to his present famed war base at Kalgan, an impregnable stronghold 100 miles north of Peking. There Mr. and Mrs. Feng (she a onetime Y. W. C. A. worker), their several scampering children and a Swiss governess were "at home," until the restive Christian War Lord moved down into central China for the campaign now victoriously completed...
Houston had beauty, Houston had distinction. It would not lack the authority of age and experience. From New York came Elizabeth Marbury, 72 years old by grace of exactly a week, vigorous social worker and business woman. Delegate Marbury could claim precedence, if she liked, over California's Gertrude Franklin Atherton, who will not be 71 until next Hallowe'en. Delegates wondered at the youthful appearance of Mrs. Atherton, ascribed it variously to the California climate, to her busy literary life, to her intense interest in the problems of rejuvenation...
...Amelia Earhart (pronounced airheart), who has studied medicine and science at Columbia University, who has flown 500 solo hours, who has owned two planes, who is a professional social worker when not an aviatrix. She planned to control the plane at least part of the time on "the way to England...