Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time, with a figure for health and a comradely eye for a horse. Literature falters before her baffling smile, and the sad young men are troubled. To those confirmed in the opinion that the classic chastity is of Diana a result, not a cause, this development must possess a kind of staggering charm...
...story itself is flimsy enough. A young radio repairman, supposedly immune to women and planning for the day he will possess his own shop, meets the girl, a mannequin, on a pleasure boat. They are soon infatuated with each other. Later she finds she is to become a mother, but the father, not realizing her condition, has sacrificed his hopes of owning his store and has sunk his last cent in a new apartment...
...write the quoted remarks, he had nothing to do with the correspondence on the subject of an Adams coat of arms. That was left entirely in the hands of his cousin Henry Adams. He simply regretted, speaking for the family, his inability to give what it did not possess. "Curiously enough, in the whole course of his letters to the Harvard authorities the name of no other Boston family was mentioned...
Rover Wales was reminded that for a private person to possess gold in Russia is a crime. He was told that a Chinese caught in Irkutsk with 1,600 ounces of gold was "sent to the salt mines at hard labor" despite his foreign nationality...
...possess outstanding qualities, I suppose they are good judgment, courage, industry, and a certain inborn genius." So once spoke Abram Edward Fitkin, 52, whose business consists primarily of buying and selling utility properties, who last week was once again negotiating a big deal with Samuel Insull...