Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What was one of Coach Horween's most constant and perplexing problems last fall seems to be reasonably well solved this year. To be without quarter-backs who have had experience and possess a thorough knowledge of the game is an almost insuperable disadvantage to any team, however good it may be in other departments; and by the same token to have a staff of capable quarterbacks is an asset which cannot be overestimated...
Ferdinand is a royal mystic, supposed by superstitious Bulgarian peasants to possess occult powers. Presumably the Mystic Tsar had quarreled with his Black Cat, or someone's else...
...University Band will possess the biggest bass drum in the country this fall. It is a present from the Philadelphia Harvard Club, donated last year when the Band performed at the Philadelphia meeting of the Associated Harvard Clubs. The giant drum will be mounted on a frame with four bicycle wheels to permit of field maneuvering. Its first appearance on Soldiers Field takes place the day of the Springfield game...
...always been definite limitations on personal liberty. Our country has developed from a federation of loosely linked States into a closely knit nation. The Constitution has given the Federal Government the right to legislate for the nation on the liquor question and the Federal Government probably will continue to possess and exercise that right...
...already possess the right to appoint our own Governor-General! I doubt, however, whether the time is ripe for such action...