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Word: possessed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...your stupid wiseguy doing his worst to deny Nature equals your clever fool who did his best to possess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: As I Go Along | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

...Eliot gives Russia another year in which to decide to attack the West, and the West three years to make the same decision if either is to be successful. According to the author, Russia could now capture all of Western Europe easily, but the United States would still possess final superiority in the air. Time is with this country in arming the Atlantic Pact nations but it will also allow Russia to develop atomic weapons...

Author: By William M. Simmons, | Title: War with Russia discussed by George Fielding Eliot | 5/17/1949 | See Source »

Sensitive Friends. Dr. Shafer made friends with individual mud daubers. He became convinced that "adult females of this species possess a nervous system which, though tiny in size, enables them to remember, to learn, and to show individuality." Several were trained to eat a drop of honey from his hand. One let him stroke her while she ate. She became so fond of him that Dr. Shafer had difficulty keeping her away from an alcohol lamp with which he was working in the lab. Twice he had to put her out of the room. After the first expulsion, he reports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Life Among the Mud Daubers | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

...Tribune article concluded its case against the Commission by saying that "these 12 professors repeated the accusation in their report that newspaper owners and workers possess the unconscious arrogance of conscious wealth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harper's Refutes Chicago Tribune | 4/28/1949 | See Source »

Droop-eyed Cinemactor Robert Mitchurn, out on good behavior after serving 50 days of a 60-day stretch for conspiracy to possess marijuana, considered his carefree days in poky: "I had privacy there. Nobody envied me, nobody wanted anything from me. Nobody wanted my bars or the bowl of pudding they shoved at me through the slot." But things would be different from now on for the actor who had been a $3,250-a-week idol of U.S. bobby-soxers: "I'm typed-a character. I guess I'll have to bear that all the rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: After Due Consideration | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

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