Word: commandeering
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Here, decided Fundamentalists, was a man who could command attention for their religious-scientific arguments, which a world busied with crime, catastrophes and aviators has of late ignored. Forthwith President F. E. Robinson of the association promoting Bryan Memorial University at Dayton (Scopes trial), Tenn., sent a 48-word telegram to his Promotional Director Malcolm Lockhart in Manhattan, ordering him to offer Dr. Machen the presidency of the proposed Bryan Memorial University. Promoter Lockhart made the offer; told the newspapers. Dr. Machen harassed, unhappy, kept silent...
...masted schooner "Chance", under the command of Columbus O'Donell Iselin '26, is now on its way to the waters off Bermuda. Iselin is leading an expedition to collect for the Museum of Comparative Zoology specimens of the flora and fauna of the middle Atlantic and to make a special study of the currents of the Gulf Stream...
...team is a much less despotic ruler than the average coach. Where coaches are not paid, those of college teams and sometimes those of university teams also they are men closely associated with the students, either dons or recent "blues", men booked to rather for friendly advice than imperative command...
...will hang down from the beautified face, almost prevent speech, and render eating extremely difficult. Complete the beautification by filing the teeth to sharp points and hanging a ring in the nose. Then, in the French Colony of Senegal, West Africa, the woman so adorned may expect to command an excellent price from a wife-seeker...
...Work begins the narrative of Count Felix von Luckner, one of those stray adventurers on the fringe of the Great War who prevented even that mechanical conflict from being without its heroes. The only officer in the German Navy who had served under sail, he was chosen to command a raider which, disguised as a neutral schooner, was to break through the Allied blockade. The Sea Eagle, like the Confederate cruisers during the Civil War, carried the flag of a beleagured nation around the seas; like them, she destroyed enemy commerce while guarding the safety of each crew. When...