Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...avert accusations of heresy or originality permit me to add that my source-book is a very conservative and churchmanly volume, to wit, the well-known Bible--which attributes to divine command "so crassly materialistic" our exercise of the state's police power as the institution of the Sabbath and "so brazenly political" a measure as the repropriation of citizen farmers every half century. And as to the separation of powers between Caesar and God, I have the authority of some eminent residents of Divinity Hall for no longer taking that injunction literally...
...American army officer can outwit a German military command, gain triumph for his country and win the best girl on earth--in a play. If our dramatists were only directing intelligence operations behind the Teuton lines this week we might expect to have those 70 Prussian army divisions outflanked and slaughtered by Easter and the war ended by the Ides of April...
...President Lowell and many of my colleagues here. On but few points of policy and on no point whatsoever of purpose and intent would my views differ from those which I know to be held by the present Administration of Harvard. In short, President Lowell and the present Administration command, and always will command, my most enthusiastic loyalty and support...
...following November. He later entered the Army Service School at Leavenworth, Kansas, and was ordered to report for service on the Mexican border with the Third United States Infantry, later being transferred to the Sixteenth Infantry. Last June Lieutenant Peters went to France with the first contingent in command of a machine gun company. He was advanced to the rank of Captain last December...
...office a cabinet at Madrid which was doing its best to remain neutral. Germany is picking a quarrel with Denmark for interning the prize crew of a captured Spanish steamship stranded off the Danish coast. Germany seizes the Aland Islands, which formerly belonged to Sweden and which command the northern entrance to the port of Stockholm and the exit from the Gulf of Bothnia, through which the largest part of Sweden's trade finds its outlet. Germany is reaching out almost to the Pole, demanding of Russia, the abandonment of claims to Spitzbergen and seeking a conference through which...