Word: commandant
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...President of the U. S. has commanded you to go back to work. Any union or union officials who refuse to obey that command will not live long...
Chancellor Chamberlain scored what he called " 'imaginative finance,' although in private transactions it goes by a shorter and less creditable title." He predicted a return by Great Britain to the gold standard at the earliest practicable moment for "there is no monetary standard that can command such confidence as gold...
...resigned as president to serve another Roosevelt, as Ambassador to France. Herbert, who died last spring, was Macy's treasurer and president of Macy-owned L. Bamberger & Co. in Newark. The middle brother, Percy Selden. a precise, courteous, slightly nervous gentleman with thinning hair, is now in full command. Generally credited with being the brains of Macy's merchandising, he is always known to Macy's 8,000 employes as Mister Percy...
...toward mastery of some one foreign tongue, not to a bare reading knowledge of one coupled with a smattering of another," Henry W. Holmes '03, Dean of the Harvard School of Education, stated in a CRIMSON interview yesterday. "I believe," he said, "that the student should acquire a permanent command of at least one language as a tool of learning and a source of continued education and satisfaction. Colleges ought not to hide behind the abstractions of an admission system in terms of points, a system which encourages carrying Latin for four years and then dropping it, French...
...principal value in a language is in its literature; this may be obtained through translation, of course, but much is inevitably lost this way, especially in the case of poetry. An intelligent reading of literature in a foreign tongue demands a command of the language far superior to that which is demanded under most college requirements. It is not feasible to require of every student the ability to speak a foreign language, even haltingly, although a reasonably good pronunciation should be established as part of the approach toward fluent reading and for the sake of understanding the language when spoken...