Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Money. With $1 dues from each member, the Crusaders possess at least $100,-000 with which to campaign for Wet Congressional candidates this autumn.*/Part of the crusade will be soliciting funds From wealthy Wets throughout the land...
...spot on the planet. The patch is slowly growing bigger. He thinks it may be an immense frozen continent, 30,000 mi. long, 7,000 mi. wide. Other astronomers have seen these spots before, have not been able to find out what they were because they did not possess strong enough telescopes to study them. Just before the War a vivid spot was noted, was interpreted by the superstitious as a sign of bloodshed. Sometimes the patches remain motionless for months, at other times they appear to be rolling about, chasing one another over Jupiter's surface. Why they...
Mason Hammond, head tutor of Lowell House, one of the first two units of the new Harvard House Plan, possesses, in addition to many other most desirable qualities, a spirit of co-operation. He is, furthermore, a good sport. He can make the best of things. He had to the other day! The Transcript photographer, in pursuit of a half dozen interior views of the new Houses (they appeared Saturday) with which to supplement the "layout" of the exterior "shots" previously published in the Transcript (last Wednesday), arrived at the doorway of Mr. Hammond's beautifully finished and furnished suite...
...warlord Chang Hsueh-liang, who rules an area larger than France and Italy together and who inherited $10,000,000 in negotiable treasure from his bomb-smitten father, the great Chang Tso-lin. Smart Son Chang is an ally whom any Chinese government would give its eye teeth to possess but to the overtures of both Nationalists and Northerners, Smart Son Chang has ever been coy as a chipmunk...
...thus being reproduced he cries with Latin vehemence: "I would rather have a boy of mine [he is nine times a father] be a barber than a musician. Anybody?anybody?can go Bah! Bah! into a microphone?so! Artists today. . . ." Though Son Felix, 18, and Daughter Lena, 19, possess good singing voices, he will not let them think of musical careers, will not allow a piano in his home...