Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...marrying. Sample of that trip: "I was wearing a solitaire diamond . . . slipping it off my finger I dropped it in my corsage . . . I announced : I have lost my ring.' . . . The next morning, imagine my surprise to find he had sent me around one of the loveliest solitaires I possess today." During the War, the book's index relates: "My house [in Paris] was the social head quarters of the U. S. A. High Command...
...next-to-worst thing for the Administration still impended?the thing Speaker Longworth had feared and predicted: an upbuilding of Democratic strength to the point?204 seats?where the 15 insurgent Republicans of the House would possess a balance-of-power like that of their insurgent brethren in the Senate...
...their record, and leading the Western Conference race along with Northwestern come riding on the crest of a wave. A stirring 14 to 12 victory over the Crimson last year gives them confidence and smashing triumphs over Purdue, Ohio State, and Illinois this year have shown that they possess tremendous power...
...have met President Maloney fail to tell their friends about him. Work in the mines gave him a physique such as few tycoons possess; 16-hour mine days gave him an enormous disdain for the eight-hour office day. He speaks briefly, forcefully, never detours issues. His formula for success is simple, not banal: "I have not cluttered my head with things not in my line...
Every now and then some college football player who attained a measure of fame on the gridiron in his under-graduate days, denounces the game as one lacking all the desirable attributes a game should possess. An example of what we refer to may be found in the article by a former Harvard player, Hubbard, in one of the popular magazines several years ago. Players who share his view are out to declare that if they had their college days to live over they would not play football, and they would not let their sons play...