Word: commander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nikola Tesla, all the world's a power house. For 40 years he has been reasoning, calculating and arguing that the earth has a definite electrical resonance. All that men need do to have unlimited power at their command, and that power without the necessity of transmission wires, would be to generate electricity in tune with the earth's. The generators might be at waterfalls, coal mines, anywhere. Only possible drawbacks would be the vast expense of installation and the fact that every power house on earth would be obliged to generate the same kind of current, and anyone could...
...Champion Tilden of the match in which he defeated Richards 7-5, 6-2, 6-1, after winning five of the last six games in the first set: "I have never played better tennis than in the singles against Richards. . . . Once I reached even terms I was always in command. . . . I believe . . . my crosscourt forehand to deep court . . . was most effective. . . . Richards had two bad falls, one at 0-5 in the last set. which injured his right leg . . . probably too late to affect the result...
...fourth commissioning was spectacular. Naval officers in dress uniform brightened the crowd of 600 special guests on the pier. From the quarter-deck Rear Admiral Louis McCoy Nulton read official orders putting the Constitution into active service. The colors and jack were hoisted, the first watch set. Command of the vessel was turned over to Commander Louis J. Gulliver...
Andrew William Mellon, despite his 76 years, vigorously sat up nights with the best, revealed a surprising ability to understand French. (Only one of the French negotiators had any command of English, Finance Minister Flandin...
Henry Louis Mencken: "If, while the taxidermists are stuffing my integument for some fortunate museum of anatomy. a celestial catchpole summons my psyche to Heaven, I shall be very gravely disappointed, but (unless my habits of mind change radically at death) I shall accept the command as calmly as possible, and face eternity without repining...