Word: possession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...borne in mind that any limit placed on the number of submarines would make it easier to limit the number of destroyers, and if agreement were reached on these points with other powers it might be possible also to consider the number of cruisers each of us should possess...
...impossible that she should be aware as she lay there, so small, soft and yielding that she was indulging her most powerful instinct, the instinct of possession, the longing, the passionate need to possess that she had inherited from generations of fiercely grasping Gartons, men who had torn possessions from the grudging hand of life. . . . Her adoration of Hugh was rooted in the knowledge that he was hers, as nothing had ever been, as her son could...
...baby dean" system, inaugurated by Dean Greenough several years ago rests largely on the degree of personal contact established between the dean and the members of his class. True, the juvenile administrative officer must be dignified if possible and even scholarly after a fashion, but above all he must possess the qualifications which will enable him to look at scholastic pitfalls through the eyes of the undergraduate whom he serves. Under ordinary-circumstances this ideal can only be served by constant renewal and change in the personnel of University 4. Thus, it is with mixed feelings of general approbation...
...pursuit. Professor Alfred North Whitehed has long been established in scholarly fame. His publication of some memoires in the current Atlantic Monthly brings to the most sedate and contemplative portion of the reading public a sense of the unceasing and sensitive powers of observation and interpretation a man must possess to interpret life soundly. A wider, busier, and usually less concerned public will, however, be reached by a rebound of this article. The New Republic has given it a partial reproduction and a complete comment. Few from collegiate ranks revolve such recognition and those few are customarily publicists and administrators...
...opening paragraphs of the report commend the adoption of the plan as an opportunity for individual work on the part of students' who possess the necessary initiative, and for writing and research on the part of instructors who are now restricted by academic duties in attempting any such activity. The greater freedom afforded instructors by the adoption of the plan will, in the belief of the committee, tend in time to attract to the University teachers of the highest type...