Word: commandment
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Captain in Command. Encore: Blue Danube...
Another end to which the science of economics has yet to be applied is the establishment of laws to govern the amount of the wage that any individual can command in return for his services. It is true that in a large proportion to his qualifications, but at the same time there is much unjustified inequality in salary. A dynamical principle can be developed, in the lecturer's belief, that will govern this most interesting and vital social problem, and form a nucleus for a new science...
...command respect the sportsman must obey all these rules...
...sacrifices of our parents; all of us are sent to College with great expectations from father or mother. Now is the chance by living up to these paternal ambitions to change our relation to father or mother from that of son to that of companion and supporter. We must command respect and invite confidence, by living without a shadow of concealment between ourselves and our parents...
...previously had denounced and persecuted the anti-slavery minority, suddenly felt drawn into this wave of national sentiment, and now denounced the slaveholders and their allies of the north. Impelled by this tide of enthusiasm, Fietcher Webster, son of the most conspicuous enemy of the anti-slavery crusade, took command of a Massachusetts regiment and later died on the field, fighting to re-enact the law of God, which his eloquent father had refused to do--I name Colonel Webster, not for the sake of reviving an old controversy as to the patriotism of his illustrious father, but because...