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Word: possessed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dictated number of ideas possess the people of Europe, and the only true interventionist role of America would be to give a new faith and new symbols of that faith to the masses who now know only one ideology and therefore have nothing to revolt for, he stated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '40 Campaign to Be Dirtiest Ever, Says Max Lerner | 3/20/1940 | See Source »

...totalitarian form of the Italian corporative state, the guild system of Pius XI was blueprinted by the U. S. bishops only to this extent: "The chief qualifications of these vocational groups or guilds . . . are that they are autonomous, embrace whole industries and professions, are federated with other constituent groups, possess the right of free organization, assembly and vote, and that they should dedicate them selves to the common good and with governmental protection and assistance function in the establishment of justice and the general welfare in economic life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Pope and Pastors | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

...instruction from a Harvard coach. There are also the 568 petitioners who may invade the mountains sometime this winter and try their feet at running trails which are too fast for them. These are the ones who endanger themselves and everybody else in the vicinity because most of them possess a sad lack of training in skiing technique. Therefore it is plain that the coach must not only be expert but available to large numbers of people. Fortunately skiing lends itself to group instruction better than most sports...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UPHILL FIGHT | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

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