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...offer our strength, our devotion, and whatever practical spiritual forces we have at our command...
Germany. Berliners caroling "Go pinch the bullfrog's tail!" continue to find this command an expressive equivalent for "Tell it to the Marines...
...picturesque idleness on the western shore of the Black Sea, not far from the Danube's mouth, lies Constanta, Roumania's only port. In the casino there can often be seen half a dozen gilded Roumanian admirals who command scarce so many ships...
...that William Pitt commissioned Jeffrey Amherst, already a seasoned campaigner of 41, as major general with the British colonial forces in America. After the taking of Louisburg that July, Amherst was promoted to full command of all these forces. After the fall of Montreal he was made Governor General of British North America. If indeed he "looked around for more when he was through," he found all he sought, for the Indians under Pontiac gave him more trouble than all his other campaigns put together, in fact had much the best of it. He was made governor of Virginia...
...this activity finds but a short three hour culmination. For the interval between a leisurely breakfast and a prompt, luncheon, the student is something of an authority on his subject. He is able for one whole morning to command a set of facts with a reasonable precision. And if the instructor selected the questions shrewdly, the student may even be forced to some constructive thinking. Too often, however, the net result of the three hour ordeal is a series of ill-assorted facts set forth in hastily garbled English...