Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Minister (TIME, Dec. 21, 1931). Since then, in Lieut.-General Araki's opinion, events have followed the Divine pattern. Last week the Japanese Army, symbolizing the Imperial Sword, was striking the last blows needed to round out Japan's imperial scheme of things in Manchuria, striking to possess the last province not yet taken, the Province of Jehol...
...these "institutions of higher learning" choose to raise their athletic prestige indirectly by the employment of athletic scholarships, they are naturally and inevitably paring down whatever scholastic prestige they may possess; they are causing more harm to their reputation as an educational institution than any removal of their names from a list would accomplish. Such colleges in any case attract a definite type of man who is not primarily a student, and they will continue to attract this type regardless of outside attacks on their scholastic standing. The whole evil is but a part of the general American glorification...
...Staff, when in 1931 he assumed the presidency of The Citadel, South Carolina's military college at Charleston. General Summerall's order was at once amplified by The Citadel's Commandant, Lieut. Colonel John Walton Lang, who announced that no cadet might "carry, transport, move, hold, possess, own, have . . . receive, accept, give, offer, sell, buy, or drink" any intoxicating liquors...
...vogue; the slower-moving magazines rushed m. Harpers for January carries an article as will the March Cosmopolitan (with foreword by the now somewhat embarrassed President Nicholas Murray Butler). The Saturday Evening Post expects one by Banker Vanderlip when he has discovered and verified what facts the Technocrats possess. Even precious Vanity Fair (December) touched gingerly on Technocracy & Scott...
...learning might probably consider an extension into the realm of maternity. When "Bacchanalian Arts 1a, 1b, 1d," grace dull course indexes, Universities may find a way to fill the cup of learning. "Fat rats, thin rats, scrawny rats" will throng after the elusive flute. "Heaviside Calculus" and "Molecular Forces" possess a soporific charm all their own, but who can foretell the rush of "black rats, white rats, and brown rats," to worship at the feet of a seer who could outline the indefinable incompatibility of champagne and muligataway...