Word: commandered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Anyone who has ever visited the rooms of Holyoke House on a winter's night could not have been unimpressed by the glowing hearth fires, the softly shaded lights, and the very traditional atmosphere of the place. And the moderate. rent which these rooms command, more than pays for their many appointments. Whether or not, the editor who wrote this article was disappointed in securing rooms there, Holyoke House must ever stand endeared in the hearts of those who have known it, as a symbol rather than a college dormitory, and is unworthy of the mild criticism directed against...
...University detachment was assigned to "C" Battery, under the command of Major E. C. Hanford of Ohio State University, together with the Units from Virginia Military Institute, Ames College, Iowa, and Culver. Upon reporting at camp the men were issued complete equipment and assigned to quarters by sections. A battery organization was soon arranged and on the Monday following the students' arrival drill began...
...case of war General Pershing would at once assume command of the entire army and General Harbord would automatically become Chief of Staff, thus effectively removing an obstacle to efficient organization similar to that encountered by the British War Office in 1914 when the staff officers were all in command of sections in France at the time when their presence was most needed in London...
...reply to a question as what means for meeting the situation were at the railroads' command, Professor Cunningham stated that there were three expedients available for improving the situation. "The first, that of seeking authority to make further advances in rates, may be mentioned and then dismissed," he said. "For this expedient holds out no promise, as the rates, as a whole, have now reached a level above which certain commodities will not move, and passengers will not travel. The net effect would probably be to lose more through further curtailment in traffic than would be gained by higher charges...
...their eccentricity more obvious than at the play. For on such occasions, there is apparent a phenomenon as incomprehensible to the stranger as it seems to be natural to the native. When the fair heroine is sobbing with all the lachrymose exertions that lie within her dramatic command, when the aged squire is struck dead from behind with an axe, or when, at the w. k. psychological moment, a wailing babe is introduced as evidence, then the audience takes its cue to shake with laughter. Sometimes its amusement is short-lived, barely rippling over the house in a trickle...