Word: commandingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been 109 years since those words first echoed over Lake Winapesaukee and inaugurated the era of intercollegiate sports with a Harvard victory over two Yale crews. Tomorrow on the Charles the same command will open one of the most unpredictable Harvard seasons in the long history since that first event...
...PROMOTION. Bright young officers should get faster promotion, with less stress on seniority. Said Connally: "Could we not make changes in our selection system to permit earlier determination of an officer's ability to command, and thereafter be able to use officers in billets of great importance for longer periods of time? Officers should be promoted not on their ability to keep their finger on their number, but on past and present demonstration of initiative and courage...
Then Eichmann scoured the Continent for Jews, who were jammed into cattle cars and sent east to Auschwitz, Belsen, Treblinka, Buchenwald. Majdanek, Sobibor. In his fanatic dedication, he seemed to have no interest in the fact that Germany was fighting a war. The army high command protested Eichmann's seizure of trains that were needed to rush supplies to the Russian front. The economic ministers howled that Eichmann was grabbing highly skilled Jews off the assembly lines of slave factories important to the war effort. Pale-eyed Rudolf Hoess. commandant of Auschwitz, begged Eichmann to ease up because...
...minute writing ability portion of the test hopes to "measure the student's command of grammar and diction as well as his ability to recognize verbose or unclear writing," the Educational Testing Service of Princeton, N.J., reports. The "test of general background," containing 90 questions, will test "the student's awareness of the intellectual and cultural context in which the law functions...
...Heavenly Command. After Agilulf died, Theodolinda ruled on with her son. One night she had a dream in which Heaven commanded her to build a church in Monza, her favorite of all Lombard towns. She built and her remains were buried in the Basilica of San Giovanni...