Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...delightfully intimate study of the development of a great man. Those who heard the lecture last February will be glad to possess it in print; those who didn't will find it fascinating...
...Roosevelt camp received another set-back last week when the 25 potent Scripps-Howard papers throughout the land frontpaged an editorial entitled "Give Us Alfred E. Smith." Excerpts: "Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt possess in common one dominating trait. Faced in a pinch with political consequences, they yield. Between the two it is a toss up. . . The nomination of Roosevelt is possible but not certain. Between Roosevelt and the White House there now stands a man endowed in the very highest degree with those qualities which both Hoover and Roosevelt lack and which the country so sorely needs...
Average Occidentals who possess an old piece of almost any kind of Oriental pottery are apt to believe firmly that it is "antique Satsuma." Connoisseurs reject as probably spurious any large piece, since the ancient Satsuma craftsmen whose work is so highly prized confined themselves almost exclusively to small pieces distinguished first by their lustrous glaze, second by the extreme thinness of the hairlike crackle lines and finally by the jewel-like glow and brilliance of the minutely intricate enamel painting. Nearly all "antique Satsuma" sold today is spurious, distinguished first by lustreless colors which result from artificial aging...
...under well-developed physiological control, whereas in whites pigment is limited to a few scattered areas and its physiological control is poorly developed. Other investigators believe "that practically all malignant tumors are much more rare in the Negro than in the white race, and that Negroes may even possess a sort of immunity to cancer in general." Of this Dr. Everett Lassiter Bishop of Atlanta was skeptical. In Atlanta's Steiner Cancer Clinic he found as many cancers of the breast and cervix in Negroes as in whites. Young Atlanta Negresses more often than young Atlanta white women have...
There is in any event no assurance that the next German cabinet will possess even the small measure of stability that Chancellor Bruning's had. Only the "revolution by constitutional means" which the Nazis seek could procure that, and a revolutionary government could maintain itself only by an attitude toward France which would set back for years the efforts to make a peaceful Europe...