Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Great artist, though he was Handel's music does not possess the same intensity as does Bach's; on the other hand it has more universal colorful appeal...
...believe something much more important resulted,--the workers republic. In Russia today, as in no other country in the world, the workers are on top. The only citizens are laborers, the only wealth is work, and a new type of society has been organized that is going to possess the future. As the French Revolution brought political democracy, the Russian Revolution is bringing economic democracy. We owe to the Bolsheviki the creation of the first economic democracy in history...
...time they are down in the market district. But to the members of the Women's National Committee for Law Enforcement the message of Senator Borah is a clarion call. And so they prayed that Mayor Walker might have "a sense of personal responsibility" and that President Coolidge might possess "a quickened sense of what it means to stand by the Constitution...
...present in an effigy in concrete. As a link with the past an artificial tree might be novel but scarcely compelling. If the spot is to be commemorated for the event that happened there, it could be done more directly. The Washington Elm and the Delaware River possess about equally strong traditions in association with the life of Washington, but no one has yet thought of maintaining a permanent supply of ice in the Delaware as a realistic memorial...
There are certain things which it is necessary to possess in order to gain culture, which is the end of education, and these are a foundation of facts. It is these which the lectures are designed primarily to supply. All the personal contacts with one's tutor, the polishing off of the little niceties of knowledge are the whipped cream, the icing of the cake. The nourishment must come elsewhere, and that the tutorial system can supply it as well as the lectures seems to the Vagabond very doubtful. When a balance between the two is reached--sometime--when...