Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Conversely, Euripides was a great Bolshevik, Aristophanes a greater; Michelangelo and Milton, Bunyan and Beethoven, Dante and Dostoievski, George Bernard Shaw and Upton Sinclair?all splendid Bolsheviks looking forward to "a complex social order and to social art which will possess an intensity and subtlety beyond the power of comprehension, not merely of Russian peasants, but of the exclusive and fastidious culture of our time...
Many other Satellites who have no visible claim to distinction are not to be put down by that circumstance. The next best thing to possessing distinction is to seem to possess it. So they confer upon each other various insignia in the form of seats made of lead but plated over with shining gold, which are engraved: "Save the surface and you save...
...crime to possess liquor. This does away with the "rich man's" excuse that his is "preWar stuff...
...Lament went to Italy "for nothing more than a vacation," but bankers' "vacations" have come to possess a special and technical significance-something akin to the sudden "illness" of diplomats. Bankers leave Manhattan loaded with golf-clubs, but closely followed by earnest-faced secretaries even more heavily loaded with brief cases and portfolios...
Invisible Light. Certain dyes and pigments possess the property of becoming more visible when exposed to the invisible infra-red rays of the spectrum. This fact was utilized for experiments in flash-signal communication that was invisible to any one but the receiver of a message. The receiver was equipped with a tinted shade for his field glasses similar to the shade used in the signal lamp. Application of this phenomenon to airplane camouflage, theatrical scenery and detection of forgeries was elaborated.?Dr. Robert W. Wood, Johns Hopkins University...