Word: commandants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Turning to the Premier the Commander-in-Chief said: "Three hundred thousand bayonets of the Militia are at your command...
General Carias, most popular Presidential candidate in the recent election, who failed to receive a majority, left Teguciagalpa, Honduran capital, to command an army preparatory to a march on the capital...
...They marry. And he manages to find some measure of content. This is a first novel. It is the story of the ex-soldier who cannot adjust himself and, as such, should be widely interesting. It is not well planned, however, and written with hardly enough distinction to command quite all the praise it has received...
...success, a party of British army officers and explorers will attempt this summer to scale Mt. Everest, king of the Himalayas and the world's highest peak (est. 29,002 ft.). Brigadier General C. G. Bruce, who led the almost successful expedition of 1922, will again be in command. With him will be Major E. F. Norton, D.S.O., George Leigh Mallory, T. Howard Somervell, Captain C. J. Morris and Captain Geoffrey Bruce, of the 1922 party, all of whom reached heights of 27,000 ft. or over. It was Captain Bruce who, with one other man, and using oxygen...
...objection that this work looks suspiciously like proselyting for Harvard is bound to obtrude itself; and of course, it is hard to see how teams of Harvard men selected for their persuasive powers, their ability to command attention and their interest in human affairs can fall to make favorable impressions wherever they go, which will inevitably effect prospective college students, and the prospective parents of college students. But this is rather indirect; if no college did more, there would be little scandal. And a town is a very poor place to proselyte, intentionally or otherwise. Whatever college material may exist...