Word: belongings
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...lost valuables become the property of the finder unless the actual owner can prove his case within a specified length of time. In a separate category are "misplaced" riches-money or valuables that have been intentionally stashed away and then forgotten. The majority of states have ruled that these belong to the owner of the property on which they are discovered...
...Guns. By trade, Hayes is a halfback, not a sprinter. He earns his keep at A. & M. (room, board, tuition and free laundry) toiling autumns for Gaither's padded legions; he scored eleven touchdowns, leading the team to an 8-2 season last year, and he might already belong to some pro football club if 1964 were not an Olympic year (he has been drafted by both the Denver Broncos and the Dallas Cowboys). Even in track skivvies, Hayes still runs as though he had a football tucked under his arm-head bobbing, shoulders rolling, elbows flailing. Unlike such...
Selection during training, like the original selection, is basically a matter of personalities. In one case, the selectors decided that three people training for teaching jobs in Turkey did not belong in the program. One would probably not last two full years, and the others would show equivalent weaknesses as volunteers. All three wanted to go badly enough to do it on their own even after they were dropped from the program. They have been teaching in Turkey ever since. But the first is preparing to go home after one year, and the others have progressed just as the psychologists...
...Mansfield hung out her shingle as the first licensed woman attorney in the U.S. In that same year, 1869, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Illinois State Bar's refusal to admit Mrs. Myra Bradwell with the observation that "the natural and proper timidity and delicacy which belong to the female sex evidently unfit it for many of the occupations of civil life." Today in the U.S., the woman lawyer lives and works in a society that has long since accepted a Myra Bradwell's right to practice law, but where many are still hesitant about taking their...
...that I am more aware of and impressed by the splendor of the great plumbing network of the whole University and by its importance for safeguarding sanitation than I am perhaps by personnel. But fortunately there is no need to set the two against each other. They both belong: together they make Harvard plumbing...