Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thimann concluded that two factors are essential to all creative activity: constant practice and self-discipline. "Don't blame anyone else if you let your creative energy die," he said. "There is a certain obligation which devolves on those who possess creativity; they must exercise...
...sale of the MTA yards, the Memorial Drive underpasses, HSA scandals, general education discontent, parietal skirmishes, the football season,--here certainly is the basic foundation of Harvard history. Replete even with the class struggle between students and administration, each Class can possess only a frail superstructure of events which it can recall as truly...
Like Chicago, Baltimore does not possess overwhelming hitting, but they do have a few full-fledged stars. Brooks Robinson was named last year's most valuable player after a brilliant season in which he hit .317, belted 28 homers, and knocked in 118 runs. John "Boog" Powell could be one of the coming young stars in the league. Only 23, he hit 39 homers and batted .290 last year...
...mayor appointed no City Councillors or School Board members. "It's one step removed from politics," Moot observes, adding, how-ever, that there is" not one City Councillor that hasn't got a good pipeline" to the committee. But that doesn't bother him, because he says that politicians possess "communication channels to the people that can feed ideas and reactions to us so that we don't go completely off base." What he does not want is a poverty program in Cambridge dominated by politicians...
Still, landing on firm ground, instead of the warm oceans where U.S. astronauts dunk themselves, has its advantages. The Russians may do it primarily because they possess vast areas of flat and almost uninhabited territory, but they also prefer it. A spacecraft that descends too fast will hit the ground with little more impact than if it hits water. And survival on solid ground is a lesser problem than after a water landing. There is no chance that the men will drown or that their ship will sink if not picked up promptly. Storms do not corrugate the land with...