Word: commander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bedroom was air-conditioned at a cost of ?3,000 during one of London's persistent winter fogs (TIME, Dec. 17, 1928). ¶George V hunched forward in his seat, Queen Mary raised her lorgnette with approving interest. On the stage of the Drury Lane Theatre at a command performance for the King's pension fund for British stage folk, blonde U. S. Actress Claire Luce and Dancer Fred Astaire. brother of Lady Charles Cavendish, were doing their light-footed, rubber-hipped dance from the musicomedy Gay Divorce. ¶Arrested three weeks ago for "uttering, knowing the contents...
...more stockaded mounds known as Forts Cuatro Vientos and Bolivar. Slaughtered were 15,000 Bolivian troops, 1.700 within two days. Nine regiments surrendered unconditionally. Of the Bolivian army.in the field only the 7th Division remained intact. General Kundt, old and broken, was promptly relieved of his command. Somehow Col. Enrique Penaranda had managed to wriggle through the encircling Paraguayans and escape with 3,000 men. The Government made him a Brigadier General, handed him the nation's defense. Meanwhile at the Pan-American Conference in Montevideo, Paraguay proposed an unrestricted truce. Peace in Chaco seemed at hand...
...against Tsardom. He shared in the "Decembrist" uprising of 1905, was arrested and emigrated "under pressure." In France he practiced medicine, astonished villagers by occasionally treating them free. He was at Lenin's side and Trotsky's during the terrible days of 1917 when the Bolsheviks took command of Russia. No one is more authentically Russian than he, no one more authentically of the Party...
...have been, if indeed it was not, obvious from the beginning. The tutorial system must, if Harvard is to foster any real intellectual interest, become predominant. The course system must become subsidiary, it must become simply the undergraduate's medium of contact with the professor whose knowledge and personality command more of a following than can be adequately handled by individual conferences...
Meanwhile there was drawing to a close last week a nation-wide reaffirmation of faith in Jesus Christ and His final command: "Go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost...