Word: commandeering
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...especially strong speeches. Most of the men treated the subject very intelligently, though seldom strikingly. The tendency to attempt to cover too much ground was not as noticeable as at most Freshman trials, perhaps by reason of the limitations of the question. Most of the men showed excellent command of language...
From what we have said about our low prices, it must not be inferred that we do not carry expensive grades. We carry all good grades and for all we ask prices that ought to command the approval of careful buyers...
...making the line of reasoning a compact whole. So evenly matched were the teams that it is impossible to pick out the best characteristics of the debate without crediting them to both sides alike. Harvard, however, can be separately praised for her perfect stage presence, self-command and form of delivery. In these respects she excelled Yale to a marked degree, and when there is also taken into account her strong line of reasoning and authoritative knowledge, one can easily understand the suspense with which the judges's decision was awaited. Yale's victory seems...
...islands go would result in their acceptance by England or their senizure by Japan, the consequent abrogation of the reciprocity treaty, the loss of our rights to Pearl Harbor, and of our trade with the islands. Some other country, possibly an enemy, would hold the harbor and would command our western coast as well as all our trade routes ot the west. Captain Mahan declares that this would put our Pacific coast entirely at the mercy of the nation holding the islands...
...president of the Oxford Union, and when he waited quietly in the House for his opportunity, till after he retired from private life, a parliamentary debater equalled only by Fox, William Pitt and Chatam, and unequalled by any in his "capacity for constructive legislation." Mr. Gladstone's figure must command the interest of every member of this generation. And Mr. McCarthy's story of his life is well worth reading...