Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...faculty, fearing that it would possess too little control over students, also dislikes the idea of undergraduates scattered at many universities across Europe. Not only will it be up to each department to select accredited universities, but each student will have a definite purpose in going abroad and will have certain requirements to meet on return. The Council committee has already outlined tentative suggestions for testing the student: written exams administered here or at the foreign university, papers written here, oral exams taken here, or any other combination suitable to the particular department...
Running a television station is far more complex than operating a radio station or producing films. For this reason, an undergraduate television organization would now be impractical. Few undergraduates possess the experience or the ability to handle TV's expensive and intricate problems without guidance. But there is virtually nothing, from pushing props to writing scripts, that they cannot do if supervised by competent professionals...
Said the President of the U.S.: "The Soviets now possess a stockpile of atomic weapons of conventional types and we must furthermore conclude that the powerful explosion of August 12th last was produced by a weapon, or a forerunner of a weapon, of power far in excess of conventional types...
This unique relationship was laid down in a treaty dating back to the 1903 revolution which freed Panama from Colombia. Panama remained possessor and theoretical sovereign of the Zone, but the U.S. got those "rights, power and authority" which it "would possess and exercise if it were the sovereign," in exchange for $10 million down and $250,000 a year (raised to $430,000 in 1936. when the U.S. went off the gold standard...
...secretary by mistake. The defense pleaded that M'Naghten was under the delusion that he had a grievance against Sir Robert. M'Naghten was found insane, and acquitted. Shortly afterwards, the famous Rules were formulated; they provide that "every man is presumed sane, and to possess a sufficient degree of reason to be responsible for his crimes": to prove otherwise, it must be shown that at the time of the crime he did not "know the nature or quality of the act he was doing; or, if he did know it, that he was not aware...