Word: command
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...neutral ground seemed like a good idea. If fighting must continue. Bolivia's chances were brightened last week when General Hans Kundt, onetime officer of the Kaiser's Imperial Army, reached Peru, returning from exile in Germany and the U. S. reputedly to take command of Bolivia's troops...
Organized rejoicing, which promptly began, was quenched by a snowstorm - but not for long. By command of the King of Kings movie theatres all over Persia were thrown open to the public free...
...left the Army, failed as a banker, was living apart from his family as superintendent of Louisiana Military Academy. He liked the South, Southerners liked him. Though he was no abolitionist, and thought war between the States "all folly, madness, a crime against civilization," he refused a Southern command, went North to enlist. A colonel at the tragi-comedy of Bull Run, he chevied his men so relentlessly they cursed him but kept better discipline than most. His bad-tempered sternness got him the name of "Old Pills"; it was a long time before his men began calling him "Uncle...
...provided the inspiration and the focal points for their organization. But large or small, these groups have many demonstrable advantages. As a method of facilitating closer relations between student and faculty, and of proving, the field of concentration to have some meaning save as a name, the step should command attention...
...those which the Library ought to have is at least as important as the purchase of new books. The necessity of various purchases is, of course, a difficult problem, wholly up to the Library administration. But student demand for books would certainly appear to be of sufficient importance to command at least partial recognition...