Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inner U.S. chess circles Koltanowski is known as "Kolty the Yogi." This dates back to an exhibition in Richmond, Va., when a socialite female kibitzer insisted, over his protests, that he must be a yogi to possess such powers of concentration. "I suppose I have an auditory memory," explains Koltanowski. "It is as though I have a gramophone record in the back of my head. I record the moves on it. If I forget, I play the record over...
...College between the ages of 17 and 20 who possess the necessary qualifications and are not drafted before July 1 will be eligible to take examinations on or about April 2 for determining the eligibility of candidates for the Navy college training program (V-12) together with Navy and Marine reservists, a release from the Navy revealed Sunday. Applications will be delivered to responsible authorities in high schools and colleges at an early date...
...cannot," he said, "accept the views that a power is entitled to possess naval forces generally superior to those of others on account of the vastness of its overseas possessions and the extensiveness of the lines of communication it has to protect. If such a view were correct, how could one explain why there should be parity between Britain and the United States?" Nagano went home, Japan completed its present fleet-on a ratio limited not by treaty but by Japan's ability to compete industrially...
...Goethe's: "That which the fathers have bequeathed to thee, earn it anew if thou wouldst possess...
...into battle you will be equipped with the finest material an enlightened government can provide. But in addition to this, you must be brave, and as representatives of a free republic you will have an indefinable something that your enemies don't have and never will possess...