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Word: possesion (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kenya last week was like Dakota Territory in the days of Sitting Bull (floruit 1876). Painted savages chanted bloodcurdling oaths, swooped down on lonely farmsteads to burn and scalp. The white settlers and their wives ate and slept with pistols at their sides; their vigilante posses, using native trackers, were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENYA: Frontier War | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

Besides good looks, a majority of Sarah Lawrance students posses a commendably intelligent attitude toward both their academic and social lives. Because their school is only a base for week-end activities, they do not remain cloistered native school girls.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sarah Lawrence -- A Dynamic Formula | 4/17/1952 | See Source »

Both clubs posses elements which are bound to annoy many followers of the game. For example, the distance to the left field wall at the Fenway is generally considered an outrage. It is quite short and a sportswriter who paced off the distance last one night discovered that it is...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sports Lure Some Students to Soldiers Field; Others Pick Professionalism of Boston Arenas | 5/4/1951 | See Source »

Then, in dreadul repetition of the pattern, two El Centro, Calif. prospectors were reported missing after starting out on a trip to Mexico. FBI and police posses scoured towns all along the border, immigration and customs officials searched every vehicle, planes and helicopters swept the desert roads. It was one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Young Man with a Gun | 1/22/1951 | See Source »

WHRB does not exactly posses the most modern and desirable in technical equipment, but countless man-hours of labor by undergraduate technicians have turned some new, and a large quantity of old war surplus, equipment into a setup amazingly close to that of a commercial station. On a small budget...

Author: By Edward J. Coughlin, | Title: Radio Network Celebrates Tenth Anniversary With Memories of Radiation, Financial Battles | 12/2/1950 | See Source »

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