Word: commandingly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Quadwrangler approves of the arrangement as he approves of any device calculated to put more emphasis on either scholarship or intellectual ability or both. But to imagine that such tests will command continued public attention is to give the public too much credit. The public is not interested, you might even say that students generally are not interested, in any combat where the element of personal contact is lacking. It will go to football games and hockey games because it loves to be present when body hits body with a resounding thud. Some of it will go to debates because...
...Wilkins was second in command of my polar expedition which began in 1913," said Stefansson. "The significance of his recent flight lies in the fact that he has demonstrated the feasibility of transpolar flights. Meteorologists have long recorded the comparative absence of fogs and storms in the Arctic, and it is my firm conviction that the air routes of the future between such points as New York and Pekin, or Seattle and London, will be mapped over the Arctic...
Pole dash, World War flier, second in command of the ill-fated Shackleton expedition to the South Pole-induced the American Geographical Society and the Detroit Aviation Society to back an east-to-west flight over the North Pole. This was before either Byrd or Amundsen reached the Pole from Spitzbergen...
Japanese were apprehensive, last week, as there assembled for the first time the newly elected Imperial Diet (TIME, March 5). So closely are the two major factions* matched in strength, that it seemed impossible for the Prime Minister, doughty General Baron Güchi Tanaka, to command a majority...
...more effective than growls is the tangible armament under Sir Henri Wilhelm August Deterding's command...