Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britain possess a weapon that may open the road to victory. The weapon is combined Anglo-American air power...
...Brazil's declaration of war involves both advantages and disadvantages to the United States," stated Clarence H. Harking '07, Bliss Professor of Latin-American History and Economics. "As Brazil does not possess adequate military, naval, or air forces to defend herself against attack by the Axis, responsibility for her defense devolves upon...
Freedom from Want. "The proposal that want be abolished from this world would be pretentious, or even ridiculous, were it not for two important recent discovers: that men now possess the technical ability to produce in great abundance the necessities of daily life, a revolutionary and quite unprecedented condition on earth; and that one man's hunger is every man's hunger. . . . A hungry man in Cambodia is a threat to the well-fed of Duluth...
...Wednesday morning the resolution had reached New Delhi. The Viceroy's Council met in the long, high-windowed council room, darkened against the glaring sun. What they would do was a foregone conclusion. The British Government of India does not possess the authority to commit Constitutional suicide; at best it could refer the decision to His Majesty's Government at London. This...
Other problems must be faced. Only the colleges possess the facilities necessary to train the mass of experts needed on all fronts, but after six months there are still no national directives. Few people know which jobs are most vital and who can be spared for them. No attempt is being made to release potential combat power by supplying a stream of the physically unfit for civilian tasks. The possibility of preparing women to take over in the nation's offices and laboratories has scarcely been investigated. Individual colleges have spurred on ahead of the rest, but what is needed...