Word: commandingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sure, a grasp of the details is necessary to any conception of a whole, but the latter make easier the mastering and proper emphasizing of detail. And so it would be practical to place more emphasis upon the division examination, which is designed to test the student's command of a whole subject. The warding of distinction or honors might well be made, throughout the division, on the demonstration of knowledge and intelligence made in the general examination and in the thesis. Obviously the man who has done poor work would not win honors, but if the "average" man were...
...this is not enough; the student must be shown the value of the subjects, and their interest. The tutor's work is here. And the success with which a subject is absorbed should certainly be the measure of an undergraduate's achievement, on the degree of his intelligent command of his field should honors or distinction be awarded or withheld...
...across the street. When Mr. Marconi began to achieve results with his wireless signals the most determined of these boys took up wireless. It was a hopeless effort, for Mr. Marconi himself was having heavy weather of it, even with all the money and facilities he was able to command. But as is always the case, failure only served to spur on the real dyed-in-the-wool enthusiast. When the queer properties of a piece of galena ore, or a crystal of silicon, carborundum and several other minerals was discovered, feeble little signals were occasionally heard, and this sealed...
Admiral Sims was sent to London within one week of the United States' declaration of war in April, 1917, and remained in England for the duration of the war. At the signing of the armistice the forces operating under his command in European waters included nearly 400 ships of various types, more than 5,000 officers, and 74,000 men, or a considerable larger force than the entire United States Navy before...
...Fogg Museum is a veritable store-house of valuables-both for connoisseurs and for those who, like most of us, "don't know much about art, but know what we like." The directorate, by judicious use of the funds at their command, and with the assistance of generous friends, have built up a collection of masterpieces of painting that is widely representative and in value compares with any other collection of its size. The new Masaccio Crucifixion; last year's edition of the Gozzoli fresco; and this year's notable Fra Angelico, are but examples of the gems which...