Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lake for swimming and boating. At Camp Washita girls live in a dormitory, have a piano, phonograph, radio and cement swimming pool. Camp Bide-a-Wee "is a cool, green spot shaded by huge trees situated beside a clear creek" where "colored women live in screened-in cabins, possess a beautifully furnished main room for recreation and study and have tennis courts, swings and a croquet ground for sports...
...Hank Greenberg, on first base. Their pitching ace, Schoolboy Rowe a lanky Arkansan like Lon Warneke last year won 16 games in a row. Until Aug 3 this year he won only half his games then took nine out of his next eleven. Furthermore, in Mickey Cochrane the Tigers possess not only the best catcher in either league but one who is apparently on his way to proving himself the ablest major-league manager since the late John McGraw. In keeping with his disbelief minthe baseball taboo against mentioning a pennant before winning it, Cochrane made his speech in August...
...organization Coach MacDonald's men are phenomenally weak on defense and correspondingly strong on the attack. To offset the inabilities of his backs to get their feet squarely on the ball, Mac has a forward line, whose members all possess shooting ability well above the average of Freshman at this stage of the season...
...Moreover, it gives recognition to the generally accepted fact that larger corporations enjoying the advantages of size over smaller corporations possess relatively greater capacity to pay. Consequently the act changes the rate of tax on net earnings from a flat 13¾% to a differential ranging from...
...Notwithstanding edicts, there is no Ethiopian chief or great house to which slaves of both sexes have not been furnished, beginning with the imperial palace. The authority of Ethiopian personages is measured by the number of slaves they possess. The very judges charged with the slavery question are themselves the possessors of slaves. Customs posts close their eyes and let slave caravans pass. While they talk abolition of the slave trade, they continue to pay taxes with slaves...