Word: commandeering
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...President called the Commissioners before him and said, I have secret service officials at my command. If they discover something here in connection with the violation df the Prohibition law, before you discover...
Captain Benyaurd Bourne Wygant entered the Naval Academy in 1897 and served as a Midshipman in the Cuban Blockading Squadron in 1898. In 1904 he commanded a landing party of bluejackets and marines that was landed in San Domingo to safeguard American and foreign interests during a revolution. He saw service in the Gulf of Mexico in 1904 and commanded the Destroyer Tucker, which was in the second group to reach Queenstown, Ireland, in May, 1917, and operated from Queenstown and later on escort duty in the North Atlantic. In June, 1929, after two years spent in Central American waters...
...Only in this way may a medium of opinion be reached, opinion that is representative of the college at large. Otherwise the CRIMSON must rest upon the opinion of its editors in person, and as such, exist as a partisan and individual critic of the activities and movements that command interest among the body of students in the University...
Presently there was a rumor that she was with child. The Commodore was encouraged by the possibility of recruiting a son to inherit his command. When his wife's "inflation" proved a bubble, he became somewhat embittered against the world in which such trickeries were practiced...
...other the National Guard . . . are committing disgraceful acts left and right. . . . We are complying with our inalienable duty as editors and patriotic Nicaraguans in pointing out the danger and calling the attention of the Nicaraguan Government ... to the need of enforcing order and decency in the troops who command...