Word: possession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this era of efficiency, particularly noticeable within the last five years, wearers of the Phi Beta Kappa key no longer hang their heads, mumble self-consciously, fumble with their vest pockets. They are proud to possess the key. They know that the key Has come into its own. Undergraduates have always voted, insincerely, that they would rather win it than a football letter. But only lately have potent business executives preferred to hire P. B. K. men. For example, Walter Sherman Gifford, president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co., recently announced the results of a survey showing that...
...life is not useful; it may even be dangerous--for it leaves one "with a sense of groping in thick darkness, with a very indefinite light in the distance, if there is any light at all." But despite this depression, Hardy's themes and his style of treatment possess that universal quality which assures him a lasting place among the immortals...
...recent murder of Hospital Superintendent Dr. Walter F. Seymour (TIME, May 7). It appeared that when Nationalist troops took Tsining recently on their victorious march to Tsinan (see above) a group of Nationalist soldiers rushed for the women's dormitory of the mission school with intent to possess themselves of its occupants. When kindly Dr. Seymour sought to bar the dormitory door with his slender body the soldiers shot him down...
...this age of scientific enlightenment, fields that to the tyro are virtually unknown possess an importance which is seldom appreciated. Although the cause of climatology to which Professor R. DeC. Ward's Milton Fund grant is to be devoted is little known to the public, it has a constantly growing significance to the layman as well as to the scientist. Physicians, geologists, geographers, botanists, and zoologists all these use elimatology in their specialized fields and pave the way for its comprehensive use by the layman in his daily life...
...hurricane delayed them the bags might be near but not at Hoboken, and sellers of them would be "short." Then the buyers could make them "pay through the nose," as Wall Street's cruel saying describes the desperate predicament of one who sells what he does not possess. Wireless orders dashed from Manhattan to the Southern Cross's captain bidding him drive his engines to their limits of safety. The ship pushed north past the Florida keys, past Cape Hatteras, into New York Harbor-before the coffee markets closed for March...