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Word: commandered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...showed considerable signs of fear. He first asked that his eyes be bandaged, for it was bad enough to be shot-let alone see the leveled rifles pointing at his heart. His request was promptly complied with. Then, leaning against the wall for support, he asked that the command to fire be silent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: More Deaths | 11/21/1927 | See Source »

Characterizing Haughton as a man "unquenchable in spirit, irresistable in command feared, loved and honored by all." Dean Briggs told of the inspired leadership which kept Harvard at the pinnacle of football supremacy for eight years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEAN BRIGGS EULOGIZES HAUGHTON AT DEDICATION | 11/19/1927 | See Source »

...friend of every student who sought him for advice or direction, and gave his time willingly to serve interests not his own. He had the gifts which make social intercourse pleasant,--humor, readiness and felicity of expression, quick appreciation, and the resources of a wide culture at the command of a ready and retentive memory. When he died the world lost much more than one of its great scholars...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NORTON CENTENARY | 11/16/1927 | See Source »

...COMMAND To LOVE?Recently fumigated by official request, but still the story of European diplomacy winning immoral victories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Best Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 14, 1927 | 11/14/1927 | See Source »

...Washington Elm, preserved until its decay as a memorial of the spot on the west of the Cambridge Common where George Washington took command of the Continental, Army in the Revolutionary War, may be reproduced in an enduring form, if plans materialize which A. F. Blanchard '04 has proposed to the Massachusetts State Legislature, in which he is a representative from Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WASHINGTON ELM MAY RISE IN STONE | 11/9/1927 | See Source »

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