Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...psychologist of today exhibits the phenomenon of "color hearing" as one of the marvels of the age. In listening to a symphony the people who possess this strange faculty are said to see all the colors of the spectrum succeeding each other in harmonious arrangement. Some tones, they say, are red, others voluptuous purple. Even the ordinary man is now familiar with languid blues in music...
...residential, $1,130,851,500 commercial and $870,270,000 for public buildings. The remainder cities revealed no existing shortage. Moreover, in some sections of large cities, a condition of surplus rather than shortage was revealed, although the whole city might possess a net shortage. Obviously it is and will be more necessary than recently for builders to pick good locations and finance new projects conservatively. To some extent, the Straus survey is borne out by the Dodge figures for awarded building contracts. In October, the latter amounted to $410,000,000, which is 19% over the preceding September...
...course, too early in the week to make an attempt at spotting the lineup which will start at Soldiers Field on Saturday. Coach Roper was giving every member of the squad a chance to show any latent possibilities he may possess this afternoon. He kept Samuel Ewing, the Sophomore who was responsible for the winning dropkick in the Navy contest hero last month, busy for more than an hour practicing sending the ball between the goal posts. Slagle and Dignan were doing the punting...
...intact. He told his friends a story. He quoted a speech that he had made to the Italian Crown Prince on the occasion of the latter's visit to Chile last summer: "Your Highness will forgive us for having nothing grandiose here to show you such as you possess in Italy-no Coliseum, monuments, cathedrals or works of art. We are a simple, hard-working people, proud of our institutions of liberty and security and the stability of our Government."With a sad smile he concluded: "The royal guest had not got out of Chilean waters before...
Since no tests have ever been made by a radio station transmitting from the top of the Stadium it is impossible at the present moment to determine the actual range the new apparatus will possess. It is expected, however, that results will not be inferior to those obtained at the old station, which was heard in almost every state of the Union and in Europe...