Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feel, in that sense, that America is the greatest failure in history. It was given everything, more than any other country in history, but we've squandered our soul by trying to possess something outside it, and we'll end as that game usually does, by losing our soul and the thing outside it too. But why go on-the Bible said it much better: 'For what shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world, and lose his own soul...
...surprising that a man whose father was a lawyer, judge, and state senator, and whose mother was arrested when she was over 80 because she "forgot where she was and stepped on the gas" should possess both unusual mental acuity and a lasting love for Law. "I've always found plenty to keep me busy," says Professor Roscoe Pound, who, like many other famous men, has the ability to master more than one field of knowledge...
...Strong foreign states [i.e., the U.S. and Britain], which possess large amounts of capital together with the means to exert pressure . . . use these. . . in the economic enslavement of Italy by foreign trusts and cartels. . . Strong foreign states . . . still further enriched themselves during...
...James Bryce, and so, for more than a generation, have thought many sociologists. "It is now estimated," wrote Author Herbert Asbury in Collier's last week, "that there are at least between 5,000,000 and 8,000,000 persons in the U.S., supposed to be white, who possess Negro blood. . . . Authorities generally agree that between 15,000 and 30,000 . . . Negroes go over to the white side every year...
...choose Mr. Anderson merely because he is a Negro. He seemed to us to possess the best qualifications among some 60 candidates for the position...