Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drove the ball several times completely through the netting, resulting in a few broken windows. New nets have been installed this year, however, so it is doubtful if it is possible to accomplish such a feat again, even with such an array of heavyweight talent as the Sex now possess...
...benefit of the workers around him he added: "I am dependent on no one. I possess neither bonds nor shares nor even a bank account...
Department store work is only for those college men who possess an abundance of nervous and physical energy, who work well under high pressure, who thrive on detail work, who are good bargainers, and finally who are relatively insensible to rebuffs...
...Englishman's house is his castle." Under the Inskip act, as yet unenforced in full, British police may on mere "suspicion" obtain a High Court justice's order to burst into private homes and ransack them for "treasonable literature." Merely to "possess" such literature (as distinguished from writing, publishing or showing it to anyone who might be "treasonably seduced") is made a crime...
...seventeen men who can be be selected as first string this year, Harvard loses nine as against five graduated from last year's squad. The four Senior forwards, Captain Freddy Moseley of the first line, and Dewey, Hovenanian and Hallowell, alone possess as much attacking power as most any of the teams faced this year. The three defense men, Jim Roberts, Dick Claflin, and Thorny Brown, could have substituted for any in the league. And the two goalies, Ash Emerson and Bob Waldinger, are worthy of any varsity. Leo Ecker, whose severe leg fracture is apparently healing well, will join...