Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...booed the cherished French thesis of "No Disarmament Without Security" expounded to the Conference by that great French mathematician M. Paul Painlevé, former Premier and War Minister. Cardinal Verdier, Archbishop of Paris, sensed what was coming, refused to send a message to the Peace & Disarmament Conference, declared: "Catholics possess other means of making their ideas known on this delicate subject." Finally the Journal des Débats, often the voice of the French Government, denounced the Conference as "conceived . . . to force upon France in the name of international collaboration a solution unfavorable to our country" (i e., actual Disarmament...
...shortsighted kind will be most effective, and there will be no tendency for the school training to become more educative. Now with so many scholarships and so many examinations there is bound to be a good deal of variety. It would take a more intimate knowledge than I possess to make a precise estimate of the system. But it is clear that an attempt is made to test the candidate's thinking power, his command of English, and his mastery of English history and literature, as well as his knowledge of the subject in which the scholarship is given...
...rapidly, is one of the hardest tasks in the world, so says a writer on debating, while to expound the conclusions of one's thinking to an untrained audience so clearly that the audience understands the speaker's point of view, is one of the greatest accomplishments anyone can possess. Now practice in debating does just these things. There is no prescribed course so prolific of excellent and permanent results as a course in a debating society...
...Exalted Highness the Nizam of Hyderabad was not present, it being an old Hyderabad tradition that "the Sovereign is too precious to his people ever to leave India." Actually the stingy Nizam, said to possess a miser's horde of $500,000,000 in gold apart from other wealth totaling $2,000,000,000, is not exactly his people's joy, much less that of his ministers. One of these harassed statesmen, when asked, "Why do you always arrive at the Palace in a Ford?" replied, "I am afraid that His Exalted Highness might consider my Rolls Royce a present...
After the suspension of football for two years during the war, the game was in an unsettled state. Men returning from the front could not possess the same enthusiasm for the sport that had so excited previous college generations...