Word: commander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coming back to his room, he opened the envelope cautiously. Out fell a two-page typewritten letter and a lot of enclosures from the Jane Fuller Club announcing that it could "secure just the kind of wife you want in a very short time." The letter ended with the command that Vag "act today! Why besitate? Satisfaction guaranteed...
...Words that originally produce results have a lasting effect. Children specifically instructed to wind a toy "backward," for example, were more likely to do it correctly without instructions a week later. To this rule there was, however, a significant exception. Although a simple command had a more potent immediate effect than a verbose explanation, the effect of the explanation was more lasting. Thus the children who were confused by a teacher's discourse on the glass animals the first time, a week later were more likely to play with the animals and put them away voluntarily...
...Government market is "free riding." When the Treasury invites subscriptions for a new issue, anyone can write himself down for a block by depositing 10% of the purchase price on the line, the balance payable on delivery. Because the Treasury takes care to make new issues attractive, they invariably command a premium over the par purchase price, thus anyone can take a free ride on what amounts to 10% margin by selling his allotment before delivery. Author Porter figures that some $80,000,000 worth of free rides have been taken on the $15,000,000,000 in Treasury notations...
...than the Franco Navy, the Loyalist fleet early in the war lost control of the strategic Strait of Gibraltar and with it the mastery of the Spanish waters. Reasons: 1 ) when the war started sailors on Loyalist ships killed most of their experienced officers, leaving only inexperienced men in command; 2) the Franco fleet was rein forced by Italian submarines, destroyers and lesser craft. Both sides lost heavily during the war. There were about eight engagements during which the Franco fleet's most notable losses were the battle ship España and the cruiser Baleares, Besides losing several...
Amos 'n' Andy are not what they were seven years ago, when the nation used to drop whatever it was doing to listen to them and echo such of their darktown phrases a.s "ow-wah!" and "I'se regusted." But they still command the top five-a-week 15-minute radio audience estimated at 40,000,000 weekly. For eleven years the faithful have heard Amos 'n' Andy over NBC stations, but beginning April 3 Amos 'n' Andy will move...