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Word: possessed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...photographer must be able to handle cameras varying from a vest pocket size to those carried most conveniently in a taxi, but besides nimble fingers he must possess a glib tongue with which to persuade prospective victims to pose for him. In short, press photography is the art of telling a news story in pictures...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Editors of Crimson Outline Editorial And Photographic Department Work | 3/31/1933 | See Source »

...suggestion which may another year result in more than a nodding acquaintanceship between Adviser and Advisee. No mere suggestion, however, will ever dispense with the utter ignorance of courses and fields in which the majority of Advisers are content to bask. Not until the College insists that its advisers possess first of all a reasonably, complete knowledge of a t least the more popular fields of concentration, including a thorough appreciation of the possibilities of distribution, and secondly, a reasonable amount of personal interest in each advisee, will the system approach success. If such requirement necessitates a change in personnel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMEN AND CONCENTRATION | 3/20/1933 | See Source »

...present, Widener authorities possess the power to exercise the sort of control indicated above. But as yet they have, perhaps wisely, refrained from any definite interference. It is, however, all too easy to point out that even the slightest word of warning front a responsible library executive might have prevented the introduction of the general search method and the disagreeable reaction which attended its disclosure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOUSE LIBRARIES | 2/16/1933 | See Source »

...system and of the divisional examinations, has left the Graduate School inadequate in certain respects. The requirements for the Master's degree are based largely upon the needs and ability of a student who has not had the advantages of tutorial work and divisional examinations and who may not possess as great a knowledge of his field as a Harvard graduate in that field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE M.A. DEGREE | 2/8/1933 | See Source »

...government activities have not shrunk with the declining business index." Yet the authors of the article in question show that by calculations from the same figures as those which the League used, the average family can be proved to receive $500 a year from the government, and to possess one $1000 government bond. In addition, one third of the money spent in the country comes, directly or indirectly from the government...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "LIES, D--D LIES, STATISTICS" | 1/27/1933 | See Source »

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