Word: possessing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...system of liberal education, purity of the press, a wholesome young manhood and young womanhood of Cuba Libre, the total eradication of snobocracy, a nation-wide sense of honor, true and devoted,men and women. Then they will have gained Freedom, Liberty, Justice and Honor, as few nations yet possess the same...
...clear view of the change must resolve itself into distinction between the practical training of the professional school and the liberal functions of the college from which the comprehensive examination system has been drawn. While it is desirable that the graduate of the law school should possess an accurate picture of his field as a whole, the concept of rigorous training must suffer through a shifting of third year emphasis from the substantive law of the courses to a review of past work. The application of comprehensive examinations to the more rapid tempo of law school instruction cannot be satisfactory...
Millions of Americans seem to possess starved egos. The other day a hungry man addressed a crude letter to 300 names taken at random from the Philadelphia telephone directory, telling them he had a newspaper clipping mentioning their names. He promised to send the clipping for $1. He got a 10% cash response and a quick arrest...
...Legislature. If the Senate does not make provision for the sufferers in the State and the Federal Government refuses to aid, I shall invoke the powers I hold and shall declare martial law. ... A lot of people who are now fighting [relief] measures because they happen to possess considerable wealth will be brought in by provost guard and be obliged to give up more than they would now. There is not going to be misery in this State if I can humanly prevent it. . . Unless the Federal and State governments act to insure against recurrence of the present situation...
...perhaps inevitable that any biography of Henry Adams will bring to its subject the same air of redundancy that a monument to Sir Christopher Wren must possess. "Sirequires monument, circumspice," can no more truly be said of the one than of the other, for they were both individuals whose lives, ambitions, and philosophies are expressed only in their works. Yet James Truslow Adams has attempted a short study of Henry Adams to serve as an introduction for the collected works of the author of St. Michael and Chartres...