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Word: possessed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...further lead he will now take as Foreign Secretary, handsome young "Tony" Eden cried: "Let there be no faint hearts, but let there be realism. It is in that spirit that I am going to Geneva. If a collective peace system is to be effective, it must possess two characteristics, strength and elasticity-strength in order that aggression may be effectively discouraged, elasticity in order that some of the causes of war may be removed through the promotion by consent of necessary changes when the time is ripe for them to take place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Strength & Elasticity | 1/27/1936 | See Source »

...tends to discourage, to some extent, the kind of work the general examination should stimulate. Of course, any such generalization as this is dangerous, because course examinations vary greatly according to the propensities of the professor and the character of the subject. But certain defects that some of them possess are fairly evident. Being chiefly restricted to lecture material, they often require very little reading. The subject matter is apt to be so well tabulated by the lecturer that the student in preparing for the examination becomes unaccustomed to organizing and thinking about his material for himself. Furthermore, courses sometimes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vernon Munroe Concludes Suggestions on Tutorial System With Discussion of the Nature of the General Examination | 1/17/1936 | See Source »

...unemotionally recorded: "Mr. Roosevelt pointed out that the world's desire for peace is blocked by only 10 or 15% of the total population of the world and did not hide his pessimism over the outlook in Europe and Asia, where men that govern the various great peoples possess the temperament and pursue the ends that do not lead to progress for peace and goodwill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED STATES: In a Shoe Store | 1/13/1936 | See Source »

...defense of this year. Charlie Houghton tips the scales at 195, Chink Fearon and Whit Wright at 190, and Tubber Carstein at 183. Rangy Charlie Houghton of Morris and Chink Fearon of St. Mark's have fairly well entrenched themselves as first stringers. Both are powerful skaters and possess offensive strength when needed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 12/19/1935 | See Source »

...Eliot than to the hillbilly ballads of their native region. Readers who assume that these intellectuals speak for all Tennessee are in danger of missing some of the most picturesque writing in current U. S. letters. Opposed to them is a younger set of mountain folk who possess much more enthusiasm, much more humor, much less book-learning. One member of this second group is Jesse Stuart, 28-year-old author of Man With a Bull-Tongue Plow, a volume of 703 colloquial sonnets characterizing the poet's neighbors, sweethearts and kinsfolk. Another is Don West, six-foot radical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bell's Shackle | 12/9/1935 | See Source »

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