Word: commandingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Regulation Number Eight is the most comprehensive command...
Next day Lieutenant General Wilhelm Heye, Commander of the First Reichswehr Division, was appointed to succeed General von Seeckt as Chief of the Army Command. Since the new Chef is not a full general he is outranked by the generals commanding the two German army corps. Thus the proud title of General von Seeckt, amounting to "Chief of Staff" (ever a bugaboo to the Allies), has been placed ingeniously in abeyance. The new Chef will serve merely as an adviser to Defense Minister Gessler...
...Conservatory. The afternoon was devoted to Russians, with the Stringwood Ensemble of New York at the desks. Many a 100% Congressman might have glowered had he known that the group of Russian peasant songs sung by Baritone Boris Saslavsky was arranged by one A. F. Goedike at the express command of the Soviet Government...
Suppose a millionaire, proud possessor of a portion of the world's art treasures, dying, should command his property burned, destroyed irrevocably? Last week, in France, a funeral took place. Into the grave of one Alexandre Bailie, musician, was lowered his violin, of famed Stradivarius make. The deceased had decreed that the Stradivarius be buried with...
...Harvard University will see these years as introductory, in our educational system, of much that bears an English stamp. But they may well be puzzled at our discrimination, at our choice of what to borrow, and what merely to admire. And among those things peculiar to Oxford which command our flattery at something below its most sincere form, there is nothing more remarkable than their debating...