Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...members of this class, the Chancellor decreed, may hereafter be called "peasants," which title shall become throughout the Fatherland a badge of honor. To qualify as a "peasant" a German must: 1) prove that none of his family since Jan. 1, 1800 A.D. have been Jews or Negroes; 2) possess a homestead large enough to support a family but not larger than 300 acres...
...Nearly all birds have eyes on the sides of the head. Such birds, of course, can have no binocular vision. Many nevertheless possess stereoscopic vision which they get by virtue of the fact that they have two maculae ... in each eye. This gives in the one eye the two pictures from two different angles which constitutes the sine qua non for stereoscopic vision...
...students so fortunate as to possess cars, the parking situation must have assumed the character of one of those puzzles which induce painful frustration and deleterious introspection. They have been informed that the land behind the Business School is not available; they have been be-laboured by the sledgehammer subtleties of the Boston Press; and now the University has put the final touch of clarification to the matter by announcing again that nothing could be done, and by appending to its statement, as a sort of booby prize, the cheering remark that "the present arrangements for daytime parking will...
...over the cats. He is a former justice of the supreme court but left that tribunal to become an attorney for The Atchison Topeka &, Santa Fe Railway Company. He never was attorney-general. I was attorney-general and then went on the supreme court. Mrs. Smith and I do possess three boys but we never could afford any cats...
...serious, and Mrs. Chris Martin seems to have grown more fond of her husband. A few good bits of wheat-farming local color-a "shivaree" at the wedding of the Martins' hired help, an auction at a foreclosed farm-are the only shots in Golden Harvest that really possess the sincerity to which the rest of the picture pretends...