Word: command
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...mosaics date back to 537 A.D., 207 years after the beginning of the Byzantine Empire. In that year the Christian Roman emperor Justinian dedicated the present mosque as the "Great Church of Holy Wisdom," after it had been under construction five years at his command...
...Jungle Road to Tokyo, by,Robert L. Eichelberger with Milton MacKaye. Combat and command decisions in the Pacific; General Eichelberger understood both (TIME...
Sitting in a battalion command post, Lieut. W.C. Hill thought he was dreaming. "I heard a bugler . . . and the beat of horses' hooves in the distance. Then, as though they came out of a burst of smoke, shadowy figures started shooting and bayoneting everybody they could find...
...their one public movie of the year, Britain's royal family turned out for the command performance of The Mudlark, starring Irene Dunne as Queen Victoria, later met and mingled with some visiting Hollywood royalty, including Gloria Swanson...
...goodness sake, Manley," said Victor Milgrim in the sort of hearty executive bass, vibrant with command and ownership, in which big Hollywood producers are supposed to address their writers and prize great Danes. "I'm not asking you to go to Tibet." All Producer Milgrim wanted to do was to persuade Manley Halliday, the famous novelist of the '20s whom he had picked off the skids and put on his payroll, to fly East for a week. The idea, said Milgrim, was for Halliday to go sit under an elm at Webster College, the location for the musical...