Word: possessing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...background can be readily collected. It is only by understanding the earlier stages of a situation that the situation Itself can be well understood; and to have in mind all these settings, ready to apply to each item of current news, requires a power of memory which few possess...
...Tuan Chi-jui and Tsao Kun, respectively "Chief Executive of China" and "Last President of China," each pretended during the week that he exercised the executive power. Both prudently announced these claims from unstated hiding places at Peking, since neither retained a shred of authority, though Tuan claimed to possess the Government seals...
...Princeton University, Geologist B. F. Howell announced that a tiny fossil fishplate (scale) which he had picked the previous summer out of Cambrian strata in Franklin County, Vt., had been identified as belonging to a primitive fish, the earliest known creature to possess a notochord (rudimentary spine), which swam in the days of trilobites and brachiopods as the then (over 50 million years ago) highest form of animal life. Fellow scientists named the scale in honor of its discoverer "Howell's dawn fish," marking the dawn of vertebrate life...
...students were asked to check whether their family's income is $3,000, $5,000, and so forth, up to over $50,000; to state their own allowance, earnings, whether they had to work during the summer in order to pay college expenses, and what qualifications they think they possess for the careers they intend...
...tempted every now and then to send to appreciative friends copies of TIME when I have completed reading an issue. But I lose courage at the last minute. ... I must retain all copies for a second and possible third reading. Many articles possess too much genuine value and interest for a single perusal. So I boost TIME in another way ... in letters...