Word: commandeering
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...year, working with only a few assistants, Grenfell treated over 900 cases in a single summer. In 1893 Harvard men purchased and manned a small ship for the mission and it is the aim of the committee to purchase a schooner this year and eventually have three Harvard students command...
...Faithful, holiest of months is Ramadan when by command of the prophet no Mussulman may eat from dawn to sunset. Ramadan ended last week, spectacularly in three places...
When trench warfare forced the French generals to revise their Fochian formula, the real grind of modern war began. These were dark times for Foch. His son and son-in-law had been killed. He himself fell out of favor, was retired by Joffre from command of the Northern Group of Armies. Not until the throes of disaster led the Allies to appoint him their supreme commander could his faith burn openly where all could see and feel. "Materially, I do not see that victory is possible. Morally I am certain that we shall gain it." The Author. Born...
...will enroll next fall six youthful prodigies between the ages of thirteen and fifteen. Who have met all the requirements for admission this projected establishment of a "mental hothouse" to train precocious young boys and ripen them into geniuses may seem alluring to such students, but will scarcely command the unqualified approval of educators...
...social, correct Henry Hadley, his predecessor, went so far as to accuse him of being pro-German.- Hertz had a good friend in Jacob Bertha Levison, president of the Musical Association which sponsors the orchestra, but there were potential patrons who could not forget that Jews were in command. There was anti-Hertz feeling throughout his long, able administration (1915-30). Without it he might have been persuaded to withdraw his resignation. He likes San Francisco, still lives there...