Word: commander
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Scarlet returned to the lectern in the second half, however, and illustrated its command of the sport on three occasions, most memorable of which was Hering's 66-yard touchdown punt return...
...letter to settlements concerning the game called for house troupe leaders who are "over 21 or Harvard students." No director would consider this patronizing. It is a recognized fact that the Harvard student is ahead of his age in leadership and responsibility, and for this reason he can command the respect of toughies and professional settlement workers alike. Brooks House President Charles J. Lipton '48 guesses that more than half of the volunteer workers in the average settlement house are Harvard...
...Adversely compared the American command in Berlin with Soviet forces there...
...General Ike disagrees. He recently told Columbia's trustees that if any one of them had suddenly been placed in command of an army, the Battle of the Bulge "would have turned out exactly...
...justification for their choice will be administrative ability. . . . But is administrative ability a thing that, regardless of experience and background, can be transferred readily from one activity to another? . . . Would a successful college president be able to step into command of an army? I doubt it.*But even if such an interchange could be readily made, one must consider where . . . [it] . . . would lead. . . . We should inevitably see suggestions seriously made that heads of great corporations ... of large law firms ... be named college presidents. . . . And last but not least, public officials...