Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...solved, not by an arbitrary fifteen dollars a month, such as the CWA gift would prescribe, but by a coordination of loans, scholarships, and employment, made to individuals after a personal examination of their requirements. A college whose minimum expenses are twelve hundred dollars a year does not possess many men to whom fifteen dollars a month spells the decisive difference, and the CWA funds could not have been efficiently administered unless Harvard's agencies, coordinated for the same purpose as that served by the CWA fund, were given a free hand in their disbursement...
...other contests. If they take the Indians into camp tonight, and in practice they show enough power to do so, it is almost a sure bet that they will also win the third game of the series and then ride rough-shod over Yale. The Crimson ice-men possess a potential power which, once it begins to click, will easily shove the Green out on the short end of the score...
...whether he wishes to escape from history or give his life for it. ... Let it for once be said outright, though it is a slap in the face for the vulgarity of the age: property is not a vice, but a gift, and a gift such as few possess. . . . Liberty has always been the liberty of those who wish to obtain the power, not to abolish it. ... Christian theology is the grandmother of Bolshevism . . . Christian morality is, like every morality, renunciation and nothing else. . . . Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes. . . . Finance-Socialists and trust magnates like...
...doing he has saved Harvard from the dismal abyss of mediocrity into which it might have fallen. He is about to inaugurate at Harvard a policy which will eventually distinguish it from its neighbors, and he is at least courageous enough to imply that those who do not possess the talent, or are not in sympathy with his ideals and policy, can go elsewhere. And even the most patriotic of Harvard men would admit, (perhaps on second thought), that there are other universities...
...butchering of monkeys is prohibited. Monkeys possess many traits of men, including intelligence. Therefore, they should be protected. The serving of monkey meat or monkey brains is hereafter prohibited in Canton...