Word: commandered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...petitior in which they promised that any children that may be vouchsafed to them will be reared as strict Catholics. Behind his thick spectacles il Papa, "prisoner" of the nation whose princes must bow to him in matters spiritual, pondered well the petition. Eventually his lips formed the affirmative command of the Caesars. "Fiat!" said il Papa. "Fiat!" echoed King Vittorio, modern Caesar, in puny imitation. "! ! !" cried Mafalda...
...Thaw, it is true, had done little to command newspaper attention beyond escorting a young woman to a cabaret-a procedure technically innocent. But out of the sinister personality of the aging rake, the Mirror's editors drew material for a startling story...
Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont was the scene last summer of the annual six weeks' encampment of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps unit. Harvard and Yale men united to form a battery of field artillery under the command of Major A. V. Arnold of Yale...
...fort where the men learned the practical application of the theories learned in military science courses, and also had daily practice in equitation and maneuvers limbered and unlimbered. The unit was attached for training purposes to Battery C of the Seventh Field Artillery, a regular unit under the command of Captain Brigham...
Seven years ago Feldmarschall von Hindenburg relinquished his command of the German Army and bid what he almost certainly thought would be a permanent farewell to military pomp, for he was then 71. A few days ago President von Hindenburg, Commander-in-Chief of the armies of Germany, donned again the full uniform of a Feldmarschall and was cheered to a frenzied echo as he reviewed the troops of the Republic at Neubrandenburg. Flags flew: the black white and red standards of Imperial Germany...