Word: possession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crew is now wet and it is extremely cold. It is my opinion that men embarking in submarines must possess the qualities of coolness and nerve, and must be extremely painstaking...
...possess a particle of your leader's [Dr. Sun Yat-sen's] vision or remember that close co-operation with Soviet Russia was his last will, then you will stop this headlong plunging toward a precipice, dragging with you the fate of your country...
When a wise youth enters a U. S. college he soon loses any uncouth and ridiculous characteristics which he may possess and begins to conform to the collegiate prototype which, though nonexistent, is easily recognisable. Not so when he enters Oxford. Buoyed up by the feeling that he has already made a success of himself, he cannot easily forgive the apathy which British Oxonians feel towards him. This is at the source of an annoyance, to which there are many tributaries. In some cases the annoyance dries up. In others it may flood into a letter, such as that...
...Rogers by the State Treasurer of California, in which the Treasurer is reported to have assured Rogers of enough support to gain him a seat at Washington. In announcing his action, the official is quoted as saying that Rogers has proved himself through his sense of humor to possess "an intellectual understanding of politics" which is worthy to be applied seriously to governmental matters. Obviously the proposal is of a more serious nature than merely to give Will Rogers an opportunity to express his choice or lack of it as to running for office, although it is probable that...
...quality the Granta does possess which is foreign to its American proto-types, and that is the ability to ridicule without becoming bitter. Concerning its immediate victim, these United States, the magazine is gently cynical; but it never becomes heated and it seems always to remember that its "message" should remain subordinate to its primary function--humor...