Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Catholic with malice toward none and a good word for all; was not born of hatred and can never be induced to possess...
...Prevailing winds indicate high ground in the direction of the Ice Pole, as do the Arctic tides as charted by Harris. Whaling stories contribute the authority of legend to the guesswork of science. If there is land and if it is attached to the U. S., this country will possess the Hawaii, the Suez, the Yap of the predestined north routes. So enters the theme of patriotism. Nor is there lacking the aria of commercial enterprise?for the flight will be named the Detroit Arctic Expedition...
During the absence of the Premier, the Minister of Finance, M. Louis Loucheur, had drawn up a stop-gap financial bill the provisions of which could be justified only by the undoubted fiscal emergency with which France is faced. Of all Frenchmen, M. Briand alone was thought to possess sufficient prestige to jam this bill through the Chamber and Senate. Its provisions : 1) The immediate issue of 7½ billion paper francs by the Bank of France; 6 billions to go to the depleted Treasury, and 1½ billions to supply the needs of commerce...
...religion that does not have a hell is a failure. Just as soon as one brand drops its hell, its adherents leave it for another that possess one. Our hell-that is, the hell of the medical profession- is cancer...
...theme is its title: Possession. Ellen Tolliver would not let herself be possessed by the dirty, mean little town where her father, a brokendown politician, and her mother, a purposeful woman, had brought her into the world. She would not let herself be possessed by the adoring little husband who worshiped her while she was meeting the people she wanted to meet, those who lived on a larger scale. It was hard on the people who wanted to possess her and could not. She pitied them but that was all. Her mother she left behind. Her husband pined...