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Word: possessed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...subject makes a high average score on a succession of runs he is said to possess a large measure of "ESP" ability. The mean average of "hits" according to Duke psychologist Dr. Rhine is five. Huntington by mathematical analysis arrives at approximately the same figure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HUNTINGTON EXPLAINS DUKE TELEPATHY TEST | 3/18/1938 | See Source »

When the ingenious Chinese people do not have enough airplanes, or wish to impress the Japanese by seeming to have more than they possess, they build extra planes of reed and matting construction (see cut). These-parked appetizingly in view-have drawn many a Japanese bomb away from real Chinese planes hidden elsewhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Guess What? Who? | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

Although unable to present concrete evidence since supposedly the alleys are in "cahoots" with the Yale police in return for "Protection," the stool-pigeon reported that many of the members of the Blue team do not possess badges, but are alley-rats or "ringers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Cops Gypped in Bowling Match With Crimson Flatfeet | 3/12/1938 | See Source »

...cadet when he enters stands alone unaided by anything but his own courage and character. That may seem dramatized but the situation is unique and results in the graduation of officers who possess a moral code and a fiber hardened by the granite existence of cadet life. It is only the strong who survive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Undergraduate on Expedition to West Point Wonders at "Granite Existence" and Loss of Perspective by Cadets | 3/9/1938 | See Source »

...this way those men deserving of an education would be able to obtain one, and at the same time the intellectual requiremnts could be kept at a level sufficiently high so that the "aimless" student, or the individual who does not possess the intellectual calibre for university work, would be excluded. This latter category often has fine abilities along different lines, other than the academic, and should not be allowed to waste their ability in work for which they are not suited. Universities which must lower their academic standards, in order to cater to as large a group of tuition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A NEW DEAL | 2/8/1938 | See Source »

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