Word: commandeering
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...folded complacently across his stomach as the ship floated up over her birthplace and turned her nose to the east. It was not yet dawn next day when the ship dropped her landing lines on the Lakehurst field but Dr. Hugo Eckener (whose beloved Graf Zeppelin is currently under command of Captain Ernst Lehmann) was on hand to see her and to chat with his old friends, famed Commander Charles Emery Rosendahl and Designer Arnstein (who also designed the Graf Zeppelin). He watched with them while the ground crew "squeezed" the Akron into the dock alongside the Los Angeles with...
...make contacts in before they take up the serious business of life. This may or may not be a just picture. But that a thoughtful young man, as Mr. Childs reveals himself to be, one who is already well on the way to education and who possesses an enviable command of the English language, should see the university in this light shows that something is wrong with Yale which House Plans will not remedy. This is not the buzz of an undergraduate mosquito; it is a serious indictment of one of the leading American universities. It should be taken seriously...
...years ago, Stuart Chase let a good deal of light into this jungle by writing a book called "Your Money's Worth," in which he showed that the individual buyer is hopelessly lost in a Wonderland of conflicting and meaningless claims. Though large consumers, such as great hotels, can command the services of testing laboratories and can lower expenses by letting manufacturers offer bids to their rigid specifications, the unprotected small buyer has none of the technical facilities to make comparative tests. Mr. Chase urged that unbiased information be made available to every intelligent buyer. Recently this has been done...
Lone Star Ramsay? Characteristically the Prime Minister, Scottish individualist, did not choose last week to form a "national political headquarters" for unified command and election strategy. Conservatives had urged at the very least a "national platform"; but Scot MacDonald left his Conservative and Liberal friends to fight their battles (and his) in informal unity. His own job, as he conceived it, was to get his National Labor Party going, put some 50 candidates in the field, campaign as a National Laborite for re-election in Seaham, his old constituency (TIME...
...News suggests a Yale-Notre Name game, or any one that can command the same popularity. It congratulates the council on the same sensibility to human suffering as the University administration has always shown. Truly the undergraduates have responded, as it was hopefully predicted they would, by showing that our institutions are not the retreats of men either supercilious or hard." --Yale News...