Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clincher, the Mexican President said he had just as much right to take the lands of the rich as other presidents (like Neighbor Roosevelt) have had to forbid their people to possess gold coins...
...because its head was hafted to its neck like that of a gorilla or chimpanzee. The horrifying feature of Dr. Broom's fossil was a set of human teeth, neatly arranged in the ape jaw. How could a creature lower in the evolutionary scale than man possess human features? asked the anthropologists. Are the human teeth in the ape's jaw an evolutionary sidetrack? Or was this now extinct ape a closer relative of man than the chimpanzee and gorilla...
Although Roman Catholic monasteries in Hollister, Calif. and Paterson, N. J. possess what they believe are relics of the True Cross, the most remarkable one in the U. S. is in private hands. A two-inch fragment in a silver reliquary, it long belonged to the House of Habsburg, was given by Joseph II to an Austrian family named Wurschinger. In 1927, Alfred Wurschinger, an importer, brought the relic to the U. S., was offered $65,000 for it when news of it got into the press. Unwilling to sell, Owner Wurschinger insured the fragment...
Thousands of Czechoslovakians last week went to bed with gas masks at their bedsides. By law, every Czech citizen in cities must possess a gas mask before the end of June, and last week, reported Eleanor Packard, wife of United Pressman Reynolds Packard, thousands jammed Prague's 20 gas mask dispensaries where attractive blondes demonstrated the operating technique. "I bought a de luxe model for $6.68 with a head piece that seemed like a set of rubber false teeth, with goggle eyes and a dog-like nose. It had a snubbier nose and bigger eye pieces than the standard...
...Mexico backward and primitive. . . ." 'Sblood! The University of Mexico was founded many years before Henry Hudson ever saw Manhattan Island. There is hardly a Mexican town that does not possess some church or other building that illustrates the stately architecture of the Spanish period and back of that are the wonderful relics of Aztec and Mayan architecture which was in full flower centuries before the Spanish...