Word: commandered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...curtain painting, representing Washington taking command of the Continental Army on Cambridge Common, has just been installed in the University Theatre...
...most amusing incident of last fall," he said, "was when I ordered a group of amateur horsemen to follow me along the bridle path. Before we had gone 100 yards, my companions had left me behind. They went by at a high speed, and one rider suddenly dismounted without command, sitting down with considerable concussion. When I asked him if he had hurt himself, he replied to my amazement that his head had been badly shaken. The rest of the company, however, kept right on going, and ended somewhere in Watertown...
...Corn and swine are linked. Let farmers believe they will get a good price for corn, and promptly too much corn is planted. Down goes the price of corn. Meanwhile swine command good prices. So, next season, farmers turn their acres over to swine, feeding them on the almost worthless corn. Then, in the course of nature, they get too many swine and not enough corn. Down swine-price. Up corn-price. Next season farmers plant corn, and vicious is the circle. Furthermore, this corn-swine see-saw is apt to be exaggerated?an exaggeration of an exaggeration? in city...
...Testament gives two slightly different versions of the Ten Command ments, EXODUS 20 : 1-17, and DEUTERONOMY 5 : 6-21. It has been a bitter problem collating and dividing these Laws. Jews follow the Talmud's order, Calvinistic and Eastern Orthodox churches Philo's, Roman Catholics and Lutherans St. Augustine...
...Begun by Friar Roger in 1266 at the command of Clement IV (Guy de Foulques) to survey and summarize knowledge in the 13th Century...