Word: commandingly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...dispersed for doing the same at Shanghai (TIME, June 15, 1925 et seq.). But a year is a year. Then the Canton National- ists were impotent. Today they hold half China. Therefore the British marines who stood with fixed bayonets to guard the British quarter received the command: "Under no circumstances fire...
Practical light on the solution of the problem of primary elections, and their expense is now in prospect in a bill filed in the New Hampshire state legislature, which is reported likely to pass. The measure, backed by Republican leaders who should command a large majority in both houses, aims to climinate the evils of the primary system by a return to the old system of nomination in party convention, a step urged by Mr. Dawes for federal elections...
...limit to the amount of poetry a prince might have published, to be sold to all loyal subjects at a price sufficient to build a couple of battleships. For those of ample means, however, this would be a small matter; the real menace of that the royal author might command his books to be read. A revolution among the educated classes would probably follow such a decree...
...Valentine, turned up to torment him and to hamper his official conduct as not even red tape and a thousand childish soldiers could have done. His maddening integrity, that alone, was the factor that saved a bad local situation and led indirectly to the establishment of a Single Command...
This final book of the trilogy shows the triumph of the Single Command, the end of the War. Tietjens is in it to the finish, in very real and dismal front trenches where a man cannot stand up. When it is over he stands up, physically and spiritually. He foregoes revenge upon unjust superior officers, lays aside the battered taboos of the civilization he has helped preserve, returns to London, poverty and Valentine...