Word: commandeering
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...profession of teaching must renounce all hopes of a respectable income and serve for the joy of serving. In the Forum for October Mr. Frank Bohn iconoclastically scouts the logic of this attitude. If professors, by leaving the academic fold, he argues, can compete successfully in business and command salaries many times greater than those they received for teaching, there must indeed be something radically wrong in college administration. The blame for this situation the writer lays on the heads of the university presidents and boards of trustees who are "afflicted by our American craze for mere size." He relates...
...petitior in which they promised that any children that may be vouchsafed to them will be reared as strict Catholics. Behind his thick spectacles il Papa, "prisoner" of the nation whose princes must bow to him in matters spiritual, pondered well the petition. Eventually his lips formed the affirmative command of the Caesars. "Fiat!" said il Papa. "Fiat!" echoed King Vittorio, modern Caesar, in puny imitation. "! ! !" cried Mafalda...
...Thaw, it is true, had done little to command newspaper attention beyond escorting a young woman to a cabaret-a procedure technically innocent. But out of the sinister personality of the aging rake, the Mirror's editors drew material for a startling story...
Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont was the scene last summer of the annual six weeks' encampment of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps unit. Harvard and Yale men united to form a battery of field artillery under the command of Major A. V. Arnold of Yale...
...fort where the men learned the practical application of the theories learned in military science courses, and also had daily practice in equitation and maneuvers limbered and unlimbered. The unit was attached for training purposes to Battery C of the Seventh Field Artillery, a regular unit under the command of Captain Brigham...