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Word: possessed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HIGH PRICED RED SEX STARS CAVORT ABOUT BRIGGS CAGE | 4/11/1936 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: May God Help Us! | 4/6/1936 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Energy, Bargaining Ability Among Requisites for Career in Department Store Merchandising | 3/26/1936 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Thinking Machine's Inskip | 3/23/1936 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 3/10/1936 | See Source »

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