Word: commands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...News suggests a Yale-Notre Name game, or any one that can command the same popularity. It congratulates the council on the same sensibility to human suffering as the University administration has always shown. Truly the undergraduates have responded, as it was hopefully predicted they would, by showing that our institutions are not the retreats of men either supercilious or hard." --Yale News...
...distant relative of the Vagabond's. For many times the old boy of Harvard has heard the same voice give the same lecture. And there are good and there are bad performances. The art of speech has suffered of recent years and rare indeed are the lecturers who command graceful address. But the Vagabond can point to some of his friends, most excellent fellows, who still expose their professions in suitable style. And he soon will advertise what he knows will be choice hours for the connoisseur...
...group of convicts armed with knives and bombs made from sections of pipe captured two guards, ordered them to command the others to throw down their guns. They refused. While other guards were telephoning frantically for police and militia the two captured guards stood beleaguered in the yard and infuriated convicts were threatening to strangle them. The mutiny seemed about to succeed...
...take over the unfinished work of Luther Burbank. And that work he will carry on, he says, as Burbank did: in a scientific spirit, not a commercial one, in the interest of mankind. Also he hopes to bring greater resources to the experiments than Burbank was ever able to command. Some of the work will be done at Burpee farms in the East but most of it will be done in the tight two acres of Burbank's own garden...
Lieut. Clarence H. ("Dutch") Schildhauer, U. S. Naval Reserve Corps, who had been guest pilot of the DO-X since she left Lake Constance, called attention to the need for a special type of personnel on large flying boats. "None but an experienced seaman can command," said he. "The question of piloting skill is no more important with large planes than with small, but the need for commanders with stamina and executive experience in a degree comparable to the present masters of ocean liners is of paramount importance. . . ." Commander of the DO-X on her arrival last week...