Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...money, those who are out of debt will have drawn $5.00 from the Treasurer. Those in debt will possess $1.50. All money remaining in the soldiers' hands after the game will be collected upon return...
Would-be thespians will have a chance to discover whether or not they possess any talent at the tryouts for the Beaver Country Day School fall play, which will be held today and tomorrow from 4 to 6 o'clock at the Big Tree Swimming Pool. Unfortunately the trials are limited to Freshman actors...
...cinema, plain citizens are still unreconciled with corresponding devices in painting like Cubism, which Braque above all living painters most clearly represents. The purpose of The Yellow Cloth is simply to show different, fresher and more beautiful appearances than an ordinary collection of objects on a table would possess. Braque's table is not necessarily out of perspective, since it would be possible to construct a table which would have exactly the same form. In a dining room such a table would not be useful; in a decorative painting its form may be. For the same reason Braque...
...Capitalists are as dumb as the average ATHLETE. While the athlete puts all the time and energy of the development of the body, the Capitalists put all the time and energy of the development of their mind, of how to obtain, possess, and accumulate wealth. They smell like SKUNKS, and like Skunks they do not understand the reason why people do not like them...
...sweet reasonableness that pervaded the air. "Gentlemen," the new students were told. "You are a group of carefully selected applicants to the Law School. By a new system of assaying the legal aptitude of men before they enter school, it is possible to predict that all of you possess the capabilities of passing the Law School course at Harvard...