Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These men are fast, have good ball control, team well, and, most important asset, possess quick accurate shots in front of the cage. With Captain Wood on one wing and Don Sleeper on the other they may provide a winning scoring punch...
...loss of these aids to good reading, such books usually possess an elusive quality that critics call solidity: elaborate documentation on the social background, careful discussion of daily family battles, naturalistic reporting on the details of clothing, finances, property. True to this pattern to the point of tedium. The Brothers Ashkenazi resembles a Polish Forsyte Saga packed into one volume, is dullest in its accounts of its heroes, most interesting in its pictures of the growth of the industrial city of Lodz that flourished before the War, declined after...
...Possess 60% more germicidal power than iodine tincture of the same concentration...
...York papers which he wrote for me to use in approaching them for a job. At the time he went to great trouble to impress me with the fact that hundreds upon hundreds of reporters throughout the length and breadth of the countryside would give their eyeteeth to possess them. . . . And here was I, Destiny's tot, getting them for absolutely nothing. Before that evening was over they cost...
...indeed a rare occasion when I find time to read more than newspaper headlines. Rarer, however, is the occasion when I miss reading TIME cover to cover. So to concise, complete, all-embracing TIME I give credit for whatever knowledge I possess of current affairs...