Word: commandants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rear Admiral William S. Sims, graduating from the Naval Academy in 1880, became Rear Admiral in 1917 and Admiral in 1918 when he was put in command of American naval operations in European waters. He reverted to the rank of rearadmiral upon relinquishing this command. He has been decorated by Great Britain, France, Japan, Belgium, and Italy...
Thousands of young men from practically every one of our colleges volunteered for service in the Army or Navy during the Great War. Many of them were sent for service under my command in European waters, and I must admit that I was at first in doubt as to whether they would prove really useful in a profession involving not only such a variety of technical knowledge, but particularly actual experience to acquire the practical skill necessary to perform their naval duties under new conditions...
...undertaking till she found, in her recently rejected Premier a breadth of vision and a driving force to inspire her disunited industrialism and in turn her thousand cities into one munitions factory. And later, when the Allies, disappointed of victory, by every other expedient, turned to that of unified command, by the will of the gods, they found a commander. All this is true, and these are but examples. Equally true is it that others apparently "men of the hour" with splendid schemes conceived, have through lack of some essential quality, failed of success; Kerensky, for instance, to come...
...Gogorza brings to the concert stage a dignity and continence which cannot but inspire a respect for his art. With a voice of fine natural warmth and vividness of expression, his perfect technique and easy control of tone conveys, to the listener impressions of restraint and perfect command of his art. With a voice smooth though not weak, powerful though never forced, he gave a program which evinced catholicity of taste and true musicianship. Commencing with eighteenth century music of Gluck and Handel, he sang three songs of Griffes, Huhn's "Invictus". (the words are Henley's) and various French...
Herndon was the runner-up in last year's tournament, is a former Princeton captain, and from his fast, accurate style of play this fall is picked to be the winner. Kunkel was captain last year at Georgetown, and has displayed an increasingly skillful command of the ball as the tournament has progressed...