Word: commandeering
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...words "habeas corpus," TIME, Feb. 20, "Law Thaw," but lawyers are not. You apparently suggest that this ancient writ is addressed to the imprisoned man's friend or counsel, when you translate the words "You may have the body," but the words are to be treated as a command, "You shall have the body," and are addressed to the sheriff or such other person as may be holding the "body" in custody. The writ reads something like this. "We command that you shall have the body before us'' (i. e. the court). The subjunctive is mandatory...
...Automobile Industry, "best managed industry in the U. S.," suffered its first major casualty last week. The $40,000,000 Willys-Overland Co. eased into a "friendly receivership." Chairman John North Willys, who gave up his expensive Ambassadorship to Poland last spring to resume command of his ailing company, and President Linwood Andrews Miller, were appointed receivers...
...present system of graduate instruction in literature and the humanities used in the German universities must command the attention of those who have become increasingly dissatisfied with the lecture system now popular in American institutions of higher learning. Briefly, the German method consists in removing the emphasis on instruction by lecture, and in substituting seminars for the old lecture courses. In this country, the term "seminar" has come to connote instruction of a highly advanced kind, as in the 20 courses whose primary concern is with research; but the Germans use the term liberally, and apply it to courses which...
...attempt which, if successful, might well have proved a national tragedy. The activities of Franklin Roosevelt since November eighth have inspired a growing confidence in his abilities, even among the die-hard members of his political opponents. To rob the victorious party of its leadership, and to place command in the hands of a less able, less respected lieutenant would unquestionably have shattered any hopes which the past election had aroused for intelligent government...
Defending the U. S. in command of the Battle Force was Admiral Luke McNamee aboard his flagship California. His "Blue" fleet consisted of the battleships New York, Oklahoma, Texas, Arizona, Arkansas, Tennessee, Colorado and West Virginia, nine 7,500-ton cruisers, 40 destroyers, 15 submarines, the aircraft carrier Langley and miscellaneous tender and supply ships. Lighter and swifter, the Black fleet was to try to cut through this heavy-hitting cordon of capital ships and ravage the coast. No troops were to be theoretically landed from transports for a permanent military invasion. The Black strength was to lie chiefly...