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Word: possessed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since George thought it behooved royalty, like deity, to possess unflagging health, Caroline minimized her gout and hernia, wore herself out in a decade by constant attention to his Kingly interests. On her deathbed she advised the sobbing King to marry again, knowing his need for feminine sympathy. "No," he spluttered inconsolably, "I will have mistresses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Forgotten Queen | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

From Hollywood, Dr. Buchman journeyed to Del Monte, opened a "World Assembly" for MRA, attended by 2,000 delegates from 25 nations. Said he: "We must possess some superior quality, a quality of living that rises above resentment, jealousy, greed and points of view, because all these may keep us from a maximum message. . . . We need the same characteristics that distinguish a great general-the plus of character, the plus that will change the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: MRA in Hollywood | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

...bully-boy of the world. The Germany of Kaiser Wilhelm's day differs from the Germany of Adolf Hitler's day in that it had 18,778,491 fewer people and 50,545 fewer square miles in Europe. Aggrandizer Hitler's Germany does not to date possess Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany's African and Asiatic colonies, but since these accounted for less than 5% of pre-War Germany's export and import trade, they are not the major factors in the altered economic picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Wehrwirtschaft | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

Indications that the great stellar systems in space may possess outlying sparsely populated star "haloes" extending the system for beyond the size astronomers have generally assigned to them were reported by Dr. Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and Director of the Observatory speaking before a symposium of distinguished astronomers at the dedication of the McDonald Observatory's new 82-inch reflector yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUTLYING STAR HALOES DESCRIBED BY SHAPLEY | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...most practical manner of opening up avenues of international trade to the end that every nation of the earth may be enabled to buy and sell on equal terms in the world market, as well as to possess assurance of obtaining the materials and products of peaceful economic life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Will to Peace | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

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