Word: command
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...waiting overlong. Seventeen times before Harry Strauss had been arrested on such charges as homicide, carrying a revolver, larceny, assault, possessing narcotics and seventeen times before the New York police had been unable to tag him with a court conviction. To 200 assembled detectives Commissioner Valentine repeated his command...
...religion lost its purity and lost its authority. It joined forces with the spirit of the world. The one victim of defeat was religion. And that religion was defeated is apparent in our time. For it lifts up its voice, but only to protest. It cannot command...
...MEMOIRS OF DAVID LLOYD GEORGE: VOL. IV (1917)?Little, Brown ($4). England's War Prime Minister continues the lucidly aggressive account of his stewardship; this instalment centres around his quarrels with the British High Command...
Many an educator's imagination has been tickled by the idea that radio would some day become the most powerful medium at his command. A few rash professors predicted that it would supplant lectures and textbooks in the colleges...
...Press suggested that the husky, thick-set host needed money to finish a hydro-electric project, that a mysterious Southwest power deal was afoot, that the utility men were trying to draft Mr. Couch for active command of the Edison Electric Institute during dark political months ahead. It was even hinted that the whole thing smacked of an unholy alliance of Power, Politics, Education and the Courts...