Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cathedral. This removal will take place at once. ... I do not think that you are at present your normal self, and I wish to give you an opportunity to return to your normal self when you will be able to exercise the abilities and spirituality which you so abundantly possess in the spread of Christ's kingdom...
...University: often by extensive use of the tutoring schools. This group of individuals, either because it is too lazy to use its own brains, or because it lacks the ability to cope with college problems, does not belong in an institute of higher learning. Many of these men possess fine ability along other lines, and should be prevented from wasting this ability in work for which they are not suited...
...factors operate primarily to make publishing a difficult field of work to enter. First, the business is, by comparison with other businesses, a small one. Second, it requires rather extraordinarily talents which even few college men possess...
...standards of conduct, intellectual behavior, and methods of thought seems to be the idea that all thoughts, stupid or intelligent, sound or shallow, are worthy of enthusiastic acceptance just because somebody has had a big thrill thinking them out. It must appear on reflection, however, that some people possess powers of thought denied to others, that some minds are incapable of formulating rational ideas as distinguished from mere "emoting," and that often those who shout loudest about how Harvard fails to pay them any attention, are not, on the basis of what they have to say, worthy of being heard...
...household effects and a Negro child. The application reached General Wistar marked "Approved except as respects the Negro child." Wistar wrote on it ''approved, including the Negro, since such a child if left behind and separated from its natural protectors, would require dry nursing, for which I possess no soldiers properly fitted...