Word: commandered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cartographer became the "inscrutable Jap." of modern fiction. And lest the tradition of his baffling incomprehensibility be momentarily forgotten there arrives the news that Crown Prince Hirohito has be-stowed the high noble and hereditary title of count upon one Hasakura, dead these past three hundred years. By one command of the mighty Regent the mouldering ambassador" and his entombed descendants rise from their plebeian ashes to trail the clouds of their new nobility. The only parallel in the Western World is the tri-centennial crowning of Bacon with the laurels of Shakespeare...
...McAdoo, who had journeyed to Chicago, then appeared before the meeting and declared: "You command me to accept the leadership. I accept the command...
Died. Rear Admiral Thomas Oliver Self ridge, U. S. N., 88; in Washington. He entered the service in 1851. In the Civil War he was second in command of the Cumberland when it was sunk by the Merrimac, commanded the naval battery at the siege of Vicksburg; was the "only officer who commanded sailors in a successful battle against Confederate cavalry...
...change in command is due to: 1) a desire to have a commander experienced in navigating lighter-than-air ships; 2) a desire to have peace among officers and crew...
...only to stay but to contribute very definitely to the enjoyment of life. Probably not every undergraduate can become state champion, but those who learn squash while the facilities and time are offered can look forward to an existence not entirely grey. For they will have at their command a form of physical relaxation somewhat more entertaining than the Swedish drill, Indian clubs, and medicine balls of their ancestors...