Word: commander
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Moranzoni conducted with precision, perfect command and a vigorous tempo, getting the most out of the talent that was before him. The chorus was responsible for the uneasiness in the first act, and the tenors were especially weak and uncontrolled; but the conductor, to whom the honors of the occasion belong, was more effective in getting them to rights than the prompter and those behind the scenes, and the smoothness of the second act was followed by an artistic triumph...
...response to numerous requests from men who were at the Plattsburg Military Camp last summer, Captain Roger Dyer Swaim '01, of the First Battalion of Field Artillery, M. V. M., has arranged from school from volunteers who wish to train with a view to taking command of citizen forces, should and emergency call them into the field to defend the country...
...Paris, R. H. Post '91 is adjutant of the staff, and P. A. Carroll '02 served on it for some months. J. S. Cochrane '00 was in charge of a squad stationed at St. Pol until his resignation in the spring, and C. T. Lovering '02 succeeded Filley in command of a section that served in the north and then at Hospital "B" in Juilly. E. V. Salisbury '08 is in command of the section at Pont-a-Mousson...
...first section to be sent to the front was formed under the command of R. Lawrence '02, and is now at work in the recaptured territory of Alsace. Lawrence's assistants in this section were D. D. L. McGrow '03, and Lovering Hill '10, the latter succeeding to the command after Lawrence and McGrew left for America. R. W. Stebbins '08 had temporary charge of one of the Dunkirk squads, and P. H. Wood '16 of the Paris squad...
...general, the term is used to denote something distinct from a command of the tools of one's trade. The lawyer, for example, or the physician, or the engineer, may have a complete mastery of all the technical learning of his profession without possessing culture. This is evident at once when he comes into contact with men of other professions. He may talk profoundly about his own subject, but have nothing intellectual in common with the other men if he lives within the four walls of his own occupation and his vision is strictly limited thereby...