Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will be immediately dismissed from the Service. . . . You must keep the temperament of the women and the spirit of the pilgrimage in mind. Many will be hysterical under the slightest provocation. You must be ready to meet any unusual condition. . . . You must exercise patience and forebearance and you must possess a sense of humor. If you are not a diplomat now, you will...
Financially the company is in such shape, after taking $1,443,822 loss last year and squeezing out a lot of stock water, that Standard Statistics said of Avco stock last week: Selling considerably under its current breakup value at around 8 and possess possibilities of the more speculative type for slow and gradual appreciation over an extended period. (The 1929 High was 20. 1929 low: 4 1/2. High this year...
...Mass, last week reopened the portals of their holy ground. During three weeks in November some 1,000,000 souls of every description had overrun the cemetery seeking the tomb of a priest, the Rev. Father Patrick J. Power, dead of phthisis some 60 years ago, lately reputed to possess great healing powers (TIME. Nov. 25 et seq.). Private prayer and meditation in the cemetery were impossible: the place was a bedlam of the faithful, the curious, the peanut-and-postcard-selling. At length William Henry Cardinal O'Connell, Archbishop of Boston, ordered the hordes away, the gates locked...
Inquisitive people, wondering why Alleghany Corp. has so large an interest in MOP, were told that the Van Sweringen:, are estimated to have one-third control of the road. Suddenly the realization dawned that the Van Sweringens possess the nucleus of the never-achieved ambition of all of the many U. S. railroad builders; a transcontinental system...
...announcing the lecture Professor Parker said, "The German scientist is interested chiefly in the habits of insects, and has recently demonstrated conclusively that bees and similar insects possess a distinct sense of color, with which they distinguish the various flowers. By an ingenious arrangement of colored plates and dishes of honey water Professor Frisch succeeded in training bees to come to a particular color for their food, thus refuting other investigators who had maintained that all insects are color-blind...