Word: commandeering
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...their eccentricity more obvious than at the play. For on such occasions, there is apparent a phenomenon as incomprehensible to the stranger as it seems to be natural to the native. When the fair heroine is sobbing with all the lachrymose exertions that lie within her dramatic command, when the aged squire is struck dead from behind with an axe, or when, at the w. k. psychological moment, a wailing babe is introduced as evidence, then the audience takes its cue to shake with laughter. Sometimes its amusement is short-lived, barely rippling over the house in a trickle...
...manning of future and present American vessels, involving expert adjustment of the classification of seamen in regard to wages is essential. The present Shipping Board, under a new Administration, has an old task, but must attack it with every energy and real ability. A nation with the power and command of the United States cannot afford to remain a hundred years behind the times in anything so vital as shipping facilities...
...many instances, the graduates of the School will become superintendents of school systems, either in cities or in counties and states. School administration is now a well defined profession in which men (and more recently women) of the requisite professional preparation may command good salaries and be sure of the opportunity to use their best talents in a recognized form of public service. Already a considerable number of men whose training in Education was secured at Harvard are superintendents in larger cities. Superintendents F. V. Thompson of Boston, F. W. Ballou of Washington, D. C., C. R. Reed of Akron...
...equally affecting. It is in the quieter scenes that Ben-Ami's talents are at their best. The opening tete-a-tete with his wife and the scene at the beginning of the third act when the now insane Petter talks with the frightened maid, are done with delightful command and vividness...
Unless officers be elected by expression of the entire class, they can not be representative. The requisite quota will not be reached if every member leaves the balloting to his room-mate. In order to ensure the election of men who from the start can command the support of the class at large, each one must cast his vote--today...