Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...federal union, the party is intended to seek bargains between the regions, the classes, and the other interest groups. It is intended to brig men and women of all beliefs, occupations, sections, racial backgrounds, into a combination for the pursuit of power. The combination is too various to possess firm convictions...
...wartime captain of Marines. Later he explained: "I lost a brother in the Pacific due to aggression by the Japanese. I feel the visiting delegates deserve our protection and tactful treatment. I do not feel that I must applaud or show overt signs of friendliness which I do not possess...
...frequently said that athletic sports in a college are the best safeguard it can possess against disorder among the students. In the good time coming, when college athletics shall have been reduced to a perfunctory basis and shall have become as proper as the most ardent disciplinarians could wish, it may be found necessary to devise a substitute for them as a preventive of disorder. In the opening words of a recent editorial the Oberlin "Review" furnishes us a hint which immediately suggests such a substitute. "A few years since," says the "Review," "the president of a neighboring college...