Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pity such things are allowed to continue toward "Foreigners" who should have Justice, if boys (?) of 22 do not possess sufficient courtesy toward their fellowmen. Such things as the above "Persecution" are what occasion international prejudice and lead to wholesale murders...
...been dangled and dandled within a mere eight or nine feet of the guns, while an enemy fleet would never think of attacking at less than 10,000 feet. It was recalled that enemy planes would be carefully disguised as to color, and that dark blue is said to possess the highest possible air-target visibility. Nineteen successes in 16,000 trials were contrasted unfavorably with the chances for a zero in roulette...
Having spent my life in using such brains as I possess in trying to better conditions of humanity, especially women, and having many years ago agreed to will my brain to Cornell (at their request), I hereby confirm that bequest, provided that a depleting illness or some special brain disturbance shall not have produced such brain disintegration as to render it no longer representative of the brains of women who have used their brains for the public welfare, as stated in the request of Cornell as the reason for wanting it, so as to add to the knowledge...
...decision of Messrs. Nash and Grayson, publishers of Captain Peter Wright's Portraits and Criticisms (TIME, Aug. 3), to change "to pursue and possess every sort of woman" into "to pursue every sort of woman" not only pleased Lord Gladstone, whose father, the late Premier William Ewart...
...Premier of Britain, allegedly the greatest figure in the annals of the Liberal Party, "founded a great tradition since observed by many of his followers and successors with such pious fidelity-in public to speak the language of the highest and strictest principle and in private to pursue and possess every sort of woman...