Word: command
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have long felt the need for a suitable medium for presenting CRIMSON readers with some sort of compendium of the numerous sports items, which, while they are hardly of the sort that can command rating as definite news, are of real interest to Harvard undergraduates and as such deserve comment and mention in our columns. It is chiefly to fill this need that "Lining Them Up" has been inaugurated...
...President called the Commissioners before him and said, I have secret service officials at my command. If they discover something here in connection with the violation df the Prohibition law, before you discover...
Calling out his entire command, planting one foot on a barracks porch railing, scowling his world-famed scowl, the General made a speech. "You birds," he said,"took an oath some time ago to defend the Constitution. Don't let the news stun you, but the Prohibition law is part...
Fraternizing. Darkness came and the camp fires gleamed upon the field. When dawn broke, several divisions of Republican regulars were discovered in Lumber Wood. Brigadiers McNary and Steiwer of Oregon with other western Republican officers -Johnson of California among them -were gathered in conclave. The Republican high command had decided that lumber and shingles should go on the free list, abandoned to the enemy. Unwilling that this should happen because of sentiment at home, the Westerners urged formation of a western bloc, talked of getting 13 Republican brigades to defend the wood, hoped to induce six western Democratic brigadiers...
...Japan. Tall, cheerful Scot MacDonald put in the week quietly preparing for the good-will visit to Washington which he will make next week to smooth the way for the Five Power Conference. With his apple-cheeked daughter Ishbel he motored out from London to Sandringham "by royal command" and reported to the King-Emperor the basis on which Britain and the U. S. propose to achieve naval parity and eventually a large measure of naval disarmament...