Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Boylston laboratory--supervised with the same attention to service and quality of food as a good restaurant which operates solely for profit, a place where a student could buy as much or as little food as he wanted with the privilege of charging it on his term bill, would possess decided advantages over any of the eating houses now operating with apparent success...
...Coolidge telegraphed to Mrs. Julius Kahn (see Page 7) : "Your husband's death has caused mourning wherever his splendid services to his country were known. It was his fortune to possess the talent and the opportunity to do an incomparable work in connection with our country's participation in the World...
...moral earnestness, his personal integrity, his profound grasp of the real problems of state, and his altogether exceptional effectiveness as a speaker. These qualities, one might think, would suffice to make anyone an altogether acceptable Solon. It is not often that any legislator is so fortunate as to possess them all. But no; Senator Rabenold has serious faults. For it appears that in spite of his civic enthusiasm and high principles he has the misfortune to be addicted to the use of imagination and in kindred ways he has "exhibited the Harvard manner." This, it seems, is a damning disqualification...
...Berlin University, students were dismayed, angered, by a statement of the rector, Dr. Roethe. Said he: "We have cleaned the University. Whoever considers studying must possess the necessary funds. Persons without money who wish to study must suffer hunger for the first two semesters...
Science has succeeded in photographing tones. Now that it is known to possess weight, the physicist will find no rest until he has tabulated the specific gravity of all the sounds from a milligram bird's twitter to a hundred-ton football cheer. Modern ingenuity has learned to "can" music. Certain modern composers have succeeded in extracting the melody from it, and producing compositions of pure noise. Music may be bought by the sheet, the roll, or the disk. Perhaps the time is not far distant when it will be priced like cabbages, at so much a pound...