Word: possessing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...study of music at Harvard still appals, and this year is complicated by further needs which demand immediate action. There are no real practice rooms; the music library in Paine Hall is a disgrace to the University in its gross inadequacy--and this all the more unnecessary when Harvard possess one of the best music libraries in the country. A petition circulated by students in music last year, requesting the transfer of the collection in Widener to the music building, where there is space for it, was apparently unheard...
...depends on the quality of a nation whether they evolve a decent oligarchy or not. I am not sure that Russia will, but Germany and Italy have a chance. Without the aristocratic ideal there is no stability. You in England owe it to your 'gentleman' that you possess the world...
...Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History put on exhibition a Neanderthal man's tooth. "While this is a small addition," said a museum spokesman, "it is a highly valued one, as few if any other museums in America possess similar material...
...residents of Tristan da Cunha, "world's loneliest island," in the South Atlantic midway between South Africa and South America, possess no cinema, no radio, no automobiles, no police, no liquor, live in rigidly moral communism on potatoes and fish, have practically perfect teeth and general health. Of mixed English-Scotch-Irish-American-Dutch-Italian-African descent, most of their ancestors got to the bleak volcanic island by way of shipwreck. Also from a wrecked ship, in 1882, arrived rats which multiplied faster than mariners...
...declared: "I can imagine no more sobering thought to any ruler who might be contemplating aggression against his neighbor than the knowledge that within a few hours his action might be followed by the retaliation of a force of such terrific striking power as our new air force will possess...