Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...audience stationed themselves about the spot which marks the northeast corner of the building, some standing on the platform arranged for the purpose, and a great many climbing up on the piles of stones in order to command a better view. A choir, composed of picked members of the University Glee Club and the Chapel Choir, opened the ceremonies with the anthem. "A mighty fortress is our God." President Lowell then mounted the rostrum and made the introductory speech...
Asked about the Foreign Service examinations for the consular service. Arnold declared that good English and clear literary style are becoming more important every year, rather than command of many foreign languages...
...referred to the audience as a "tobacco chewing crowd." In approximate figures there were 2,000 in uniform and under military command. These could not chew. There were 5,000 or more school children and 2,000 college students. These do not chew...
...DARK COMMAND-W. R. Burnett -Knopf ($2.50). Lickity-split romance against a background of Kansas-Missouri border fighting; by the author of Little Caesar. A supplementary four-page leaflet explains who his Confederate villain was in real life, makes better reading than much of the novel...
Ship of the Line begins with a glimpse of Hornblower becalmed at home-bored with his dowdy wife, pawning his sword to get money for ship stores, worried about manning and outfitting his new command, the two-decker Sutherland- but the winds of romance blow hard as soon as he is out of sight of land. Convoying ships of the East India Co., Hornblower drives off two French raiders (incidentally conquering his secret shame, seasickness), accepts the grateful tributes of the merchantmen, then outrages them by seizing their men to fill out his crew. In another 48 hours the phlegmatic...