Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good teacher. There are discussions on the speeches which often provoke feeling debate. The work is not unreasonably hard. However, since the course is composed largely of upper-classmen whose greater experience may make you suffer by comparison with a corrcapounding influence on your grade you must possess some real interest in it. Mr. Packard's consent is required...
...Japan is interested in peace, not war, and in peace is determined to work out her destiny," he said in his interviews. "Japan is by no means claiming the right to possess a navy greater than she has. On the contrary, she is proposing a decided reduction in naval armaments." Japan desires not to build up to the strength of Britain and America, but that they reduce their navies toward her strength...
...have no knowledge of this subject whatsoever. Too many college graduates are ignorant of the most elementary aspects, both political and economic, of the world which they are about to enter. Such a course might go part of the way toward acquainting undergraduates with the troubles which ever possess the world...
Governor Eccles is a thoroughgoing New Dealer who will do what President Roosevelt wants him to do. Yet when he was putting his ideas into the Congressional record nearly two years ago, he declared: "Such measures as I have proposed may frighten those who possess wealth. How ever, they should feel reassured that it is to save the rich and not soak them...
While the Roosevelt policies involve grave dangers which many men are unwilling to risk, they will have their chance. They now possess every possible advantage, and if they fall it will not be through obstructionist tactics but through something inherently wrong in their underlying theory...