Word: commander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fire until you can see the whites of their eyes, boys," the command uttered as the British troops stormed Bunker Hill, has become one of the famous quotations in American history...
...embraces not only the opportunity to present evidence but also a reasonable opportunity to know the claims [of the Government] and to meet them. . . . Those who are brought into contest with the Government ... are entitled to be fairly advised of what the Government proposes . . . before it issues its final command...
...scientific literature as a background, a well-written article would stand out in any standard periodical like the single light of a one-eyed car. Good writing can never take the place of good research, but the scholar who has something to say and says it well will command attention. Scientists are still humans, and they cannot experience an emotional thrill over an article entitled, 'A Short Dissertation on the Effects of Alcoholic Tincture of Rotenone in the Control of Thrips on Six-weeks Old Spinach Plants in Richmond and Queens Boroughs,' especially if the article concludes that...
...ceremonies at Shinto shrines are no more religious than those in which floral offerings are placed in Lincoln Memorial or on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington. As Missionary Underwood described a Shinto ceremony, it involves "making a slight inclination of the head and body" when a command is given which means: "Respectful Salute!" Wrote he: "No genuflection or prostration is required." Furthermore, the Government permits Christians to declare publicly that they attach no religious importance to the ceremonies. Finally. Missionary Underwood pointed out that closing mission schools would throw the children into non-Christian schools, would prejudice...
Died. Grey Owl, 50, self-educated Canadian Indian trapper who turned naturalist and conservationist (TIME, Jan. 3); of pneumonia; in Prince Albert, Sask. Returning a month ago from a tour of the U. S. and England, where he gave a command performance before King George and Queen Elizabeth, he told Ontario newshawks that "another month of this lecturing will kill...