Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suggest you add good manners to the list of virtues you may possess...
...will be able to play Saturday. If he is forced to remain on the sidelines, it seems probable that Zarakov, often called Harvard's most feared reserve, will start a major contest for the first time. With him and Crosby at the halfback positions, the University eleven will possess two speedy, shifty lightweight carriers, who, should they once get started, are sure to give the Elis plenty of trouble...
This experiment proceeds upon an assumption which, though granted tentatively by a liberal faculty, must still be regarded as no more than an assumption: namely, that students actually have some understanding of the ends toward which their education is directed, and, moreover, that they possess some faculty for sound criticism of the means employed to attain those ends...
Harvard's defence against forward passes is likely to be thoroughly tested this afternoon. The Crimson had been weak in this department of the game and unless the defence has improved William and Mary may score. The Indians, as the visitors are called, possess in their Japanese quarterback, Matsu, a brilliant passer whose tosses scared Annapolis a month ago and who may prove a real thorn in the side of the University eleven today...
...denied that a Turko-British crisis is impending, declaring that Britain is still willing to arbitrate the question of whether Iraq or Turkey shall eventually possess Mosul, indicated that he believes the League of Nations and the Hague Court will be able to induce Turkey to fulfill the obligation which Englishmen consider she assumed at Brussels last October...