Word: commandeering
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...Louis-Harvard man is Frederick Augustine Sterling. He was a big ranchman and woolen manufacturer until he was 35, when he began his diplomatic career at Petrograd. Since then he has toasted monarchs and men at Peking, at Petrograd again, at Washington, Paris, Lima. He has been second in command of the U. S. embassy in London since 1923. In 1922 the Irish Free State was founded. Last week the Secretary of State announced his appointment as first U. S. Minister to that part of Ireland which is governed from Dublin. Many an Irish-American was vexed that...
...recent years, Georgia's most conspicuous contribution to the science of government has been Congressman William David Upshaw, humorless Dry-crusader. But Mr. Upshaw has not been re-elected to the next Congress, and Georgia is becoming notable for two new contributions which command more general respect. One is Senator Walter Franklin George. The other is an unprecedented practice having to do with lynching (TIME...
...Corn and swine are linked. Let farmers believe they will get a good price for corn, and promptly too much corn is planted. Down goes the price of corn. Meanwhile swine command good prices. So, next season, farmers turn their acres over to swine, feeding them on the almost worthless corn. Then, in the course of nature, they get too many swine and not enough corn. Down swine-price. Up corn-price. Next season farmers plant corn, and vicious is the circle. Furthermore, this corn-swine see-saw is apt to be exaggerated?an exaggeration of an exaggeration? in city...
...Typesetters are not expected to know anything; but we employ the best talent that money and good prices can command for proofreaders, and there is nothing to be said in extenuation of their shortcomings...
...Miss Cather had published her tale as a short novel. Sherwood Anderson received second prize ($250) for 'Death in the Woods.' And to me they offered third prize ($100) for 'Between Worlds.' I refused to give permission for the reprinting of my story. The committee then fell back on 'Command,' a piece published last April in Sea Stories (monthly) by one Richard Wetjen...