Word: commander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year, working with only a few assistants, Grenfell treated over 900 cases in a single summer. In 1893 Harvard men purchased and manned a small ship for the mission and it is the aim of the committee to purchase a schooner this year and eventually have three Harvard students command...
While on the question, it will be interesting to see what Princeton and Yale believe. President Angell says, "We have been giving increasing weight to the school records made by the students before coming to Yale and to such evidence as we can command regarding essential personality." Princeton has developed a system which is in effect a balancing four components in a man's record, checking one against another. These four components are: (1) the candidate's school record, with greatest emphasis on the record of the final year and the numerical standing in the class at graduation, (2) combinations...
...Faithful, holiest of months is Ramadan when by command of the prophet no Mussulman may eat from dawn to sunset. Ramadan ended last week, spectacularly in three places...
When trench warfare forced the French generals to revise their Fochian formula, the real grind of modern war began. These were dark times for Foch. His son and son-in-law had been killed. He himself fell out of favor, was retired by Joffre from command of the Northern Group of Armies. Not until the throes of disaster led the Allies to appoint him their supreme commander could his faith burn openly where all could see and feel. "Materially, I do not see that victory is possible. Morally I am certain that we shall gain it." The Author. Born...
...will enroll next fall six youthful prodigies between the ages of thirteen and fifteen. Who have met all the requirements for admission this projected establishment of a "mental hothouse" to train precocious young boys and ripen them into geniuses may seem alluring to such students, but will scarcely command the unqualified approval of educators...