Word: commanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...confused with ordinary corps area maneuvers, held annually, the Texas war games started when the first completely motorized division in U. S. Army history encamped at Fort Sam Houston under the command of 60-year-old Major General James K. Parsons. First six weeks were devoted to a series of imaginary battles against a "Red" Army which the P. I. D., split up into small details, functioned successfully in attack, retreat, flank and encirclement maneuvers. Last week the P. I. D. had had time to become sufficiently well coordinated to show what it could really...
...July 27, in celebration of the Anglo-Turkish treaty at Berlin, Benjamin Disraeli characterized William Gladstone, Liberal opponent of the Prime Minister's Eastern policy, as "a sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and glorify himself."-ED. Details...
...foods, groceries and candy.... In my opinion there is one and only one course of action which will check the increase of dental disease and degeneration which may ultimately cause the extinction of the human species. This is to elevate the dental profession to a plane where it can command the services of our best research minds to study the causes and seek for the cures of these dental evils.... No effective measures of public education in care of the teeth can be taken until dental practitioners cease to be tinkers and learn to be scientists...
Ethel Barrymore is superb in the role of Sara. Although the role is that of a dominant person, Miss Barrymore has happily realized that all Sara's command is feminine, and has attached no masculinity to the character. Dudley Digges as Magnate Clevenger carries the impersonation to perfection without falling into the ever-present danger of exaggeration. The rest of the cast is so numerous and so uniformly good that no further special mention is possible...
...Eight years ago these two rebelled against Chiang because he was then unwilling to fight Japan as they thought China should. Last month General Pai became Chief of Staff to the Generalissimo. Last week after a final patching up of broken friendships in Nanking, General Li went north to command 50,000 troops he had sent ahead from the south to try to stop the Japanese in Shantung. Shantung's Governor, famed General Han Fu-chu whom Japanese have been trying to win over by bribes, thus had to make up his mind last week, clarioned: "I urge...