Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...support of this Declaration we pledge our lives, our honor, and all that we possess to the cause of our country and humanity...
...great advantage which our students possess over those in the strictly professional school comes from the close contact with the life of a great university, with its tremendous breadth of interest, its opportunities for seeing and hearing the leaders in the world's activities, its museums, the opportunity to hear fine music, and the access to a great library, with its treasures of literature of the ages. For the undergraduate, too, the friendly association with students whose major interest lies in fields other than engineering cannot but be of real benefit
...there sat down seven men whose faces appear in Manhattan's rogues' gallery. There were also several other suspicious persons, a group of local businessmen, a police detective, and a swart gentleman called Ciro Terranova alias Morello, commonly known as the "Artichoke King,"* and believed to possess a limousine equipped with bullet-proof glass...
...three survey courses in Latin and Greek literatures, only one, Greek 11, the history of the Greek drama, does not require a knowledge of the language. Latin 12 and Greek 12 doubtless are commendable survey courses for those men concentrating in Classics, but they require what few undergraduates possess, an ability to translate Latin and Greek well. For at least three years the two surveys of ancient civilizations, Latin 10 and Greek 10, with reading in English, have not been given. There is a field for such courses, and if they are properly announced and organized, there is no reason...