Word: commandeering
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...Expense will be eliminated, time will be saved, and error will be reduced. Intersectional games have made scouting an expensive luxury. When the contract of a coach depends upon good results he will take no chances. He will get men who can provide able reports on opponents. Fine men command fine salaries...
...goods. As means of transportation in the country are few, the company is building roads between its various posts. The industry in general is of greatest economic value as it provides employment for many of the inhabitants at a wage which, although small, is greater than they could otherwise command. The employees live in company huts, and plans are being made for the construction of model, sanitary towns where the natives for the first time will have hospitals, clean water supply, and sanitary means of sewage disposal. Native customs are being studied with a view to organizing practical trade schools...
...training of the first class consists of instruction in signal communications, command, sword and voice drill, and the innumerable duties of officers in field and garrison. This work includes training the new fourth class and extended cavalry and artillery hikes...
...Boston. Most ambitious of the season's programs is that mapped out by the Boston Symphony. The occasion warrants it. Fifty years have passed since the late Major Henry Lee Higginson undertook to provide Bostonians with a permanent orchestra, brought over German George Henschel to take first command. Despite his 80 years, Henschel came back last week to inaugurate the jubilee season with a repetition of his original program. Conductor Sergei Alexandrovitch Koussevitzky anticipated the opening with a superb radio concert, planned his actual return for the season's second week. Scheduled for the winter are the premieres of many...
...manager a woman, Bertha M. Stryker, energetic worker in the Seattle Music and Art Foundation. (Cleveland's capable orchestra manager is Adella Prentiss Hughes.) Karl Krueger, young Viennese conductor who took over the Seattle Orchestra at the time of its reorganization in 1926, again has sole command...