Word: command
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...left New York with his little command by steamer for Panama City and crossed the Isthmus, a flat country barren of people, on horse to Colon, where they again took steamer for San Francisco." When Panamaian editors read that paragraph from an article on the late General Philip Henry Sheridan written for the Saturday Evening Post by Joseph Hergesheimer - they invited Author Hergesheimer to visit Panama, learn something about its geography.* Recently Mark Gosling, member of the legislative assembly of New South Wales, prominent Australian radical Socialist, began a crusade to form "Socialist cells" in Australian universities. Came news last...
Many a sea-landing was made during the War, sometimes to take aboard the commander of a German minesweeper, fly him over a mine field located by the Zeppelin, and return him to his command. On occasion a suspected merchantman would be halted by a Zeppelin, boarded by an officer. If contraband were found, the steamer's crew was ordered to its small boats and the steamer bombed to the bottom by the Zeppelin. That practice was abandoned, however, because of the danger of destruction by incendiary bullets from the steamer. Wholly unrelated to a dirigible save by its bullet...
Robert E. Lee's cavalry general was James Ewell Brown ("Jeb") Stuart, killed at Yellow Tavern in the last days of the war, but when somebody asked Lee at Appomattox who was the greatest soldier under his command, Lee answered, "A man I have never seen, sir. His name is Forrest...
...crowd." One day he got tired of the press, "swept his mighty shoulders around and shouted," cleared the street. As soon as he heard about the Ku Klux Klan he joined it, was elected "Grand Wizard of the Invisible Empire." (Robert E. Lee had written re fusing the command, approving the idea but saying that his approval must remain "invisible.") In 1877 Forrest died, full of years, scars, memories of battles...
...just such big weatherbeaten Scotsmen as Captain Robert Gilmore ("Jock") Latta of the Empress of Britain. Twenty-seven years ago, "Jock" Latta joined the Canadian Pacific fleet as fourth officer of the S. S. Montezuma, 8,360 tons, 480 ft. long, speed 9 ¾ knots. His twelfth and biggest command is the Empress of Britain, 42,500 tons, 758 ft. long, speed 25.3 knots. On her maiden voyage to Quebec she broke the Britain-to-Canada record, crossing in 5 days, 5 hr., 40 min. With other ships she stacks up thus...