Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crucial line. If the AROTC could not mold officers without dances, then we could hardly object to coercion. This is not the case, though. Dances and other social functions are hardly essential to teach men discipline, to teach them military procedures, techniques, and the other qualities good officers possess. Social functions are just not important enough to justify the inroads they make on an undergraduate's normal interests, on the course of education in its widest sense. Even if the mis-step is petty, as in this case, it warrants protest...
...school breaks down into three separate departments, normally and successfully integrated under the general heading of design. A quick glance at endowment funds shows that two of these departments, architecture and landscape architecture, possess over ninety percent of the school's outside funds, while the third, regional planning, can claim only one endowed chair. Regional planning, however, controls a good portion of Design's budget and without it the department would operate at a profit. One may argue that regional planning would fit easily into another department, for instance public administration. Regional planning is not pure design; it combines...
...people of our country apparently possess a wisdom not shared by the eggheads whom I've long suspected of being eggheads...Webster's defines an intellectual as one "...endowed with intellect; having unusual mental capacity." One would think that such a person would also be possessed of wisdom. Yet today's intellectual seems somewhat lacking in this respect...
...Truman had given Ike quite a lesson in the technique of shifting responsibility, by trying to make it appear that Ike was to blame for the Korean war. To allay fears that Truman would spring another trap, Ike's press secretary issued a statement emphasizing that Eisenhower would possess "no authority of any kind" until his inauguration, and that the chief function of his representatives would be to obtain information...
Watts: ". . . Obviously Falstaff was intended as the answer, and I think there is considerable doubt that millions 'the world over' ever found Pistol endearing . . . What is a matter of fact is that he is 'a cowardly braggart' and that he does possess 'good humor' and 'some wit,' and certainly appears in all the required plays. So it seems to me the Pistol couple have...