Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...power, At last surrender to Cupid's feather'd Dart, And now lays bleeding every h-o-u-r In deluding slee pings let my Eyelids close, That in an enraptured d-r-e-a-m I may, In a soft lulling sleep and gentle re pose, Possess those joys denied...
...listed in Burke's Landed Gentry one had to possess an estate of at least 1,000 acres and an authentic coat of arms. Recently Burke's reduced this requirement in view of the sale of so many estates. The new Burke's Landed Gentry includes many a name not up to the old standard. Even so it contains 1,000 names less than ten years...
Like many persons who possess abundant nervous energy, he comports himself, away from tennis courts, in a manner almost painfully lethargic. Vines ambles when he walks. His frame, more knobby at the knees and elbows than an athlete's should be, presents an awkward aspect. Languid even in responding to a new environment. Vines maintained his habit of retiring and rising early last week. In Paris, he investigated neither the Louvre nor the Folies Bergere. In London, he ordered new and wider trousers which fit him better than his old ones...
...Ridiculing the Democratic plan as "utterly visionary and chimerical," Secretary Hyde argued: "One man can plant about one acre or something near 1,000 trees a day. A million men, therefore, could plant 1,000,000,000 trees in a day. But all the nurseries in America do not possess 1,000,000,000 seedlings. They probably do not possess 200,000,000. But suppose there were 300,000,000 seedling trees available, 1,000,000 men could plant them in about three hours! Thus 'immediate employment and economic foresight' marching hand in hand a la Roosevelt would...
...have read with pleasure your announcement of June 7 that your radio broadcasts, "The March of Time," will be resumed in September. I was among your readers who regretted your announcement last February that you were going off the air. I of course possess no means of knowing the financial advantage to you of this form of advertising. I only know that as a radio listener I looked upon your broadcast as one of the very best and most interesting on the air, hence my joy at knowing you are to resume...