Word: possession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thoroughly enjoy TIME, but I do not read every paragraph in the magazine from cover to cover. That may account for my singular ignorance which other readers of TIME may not possess...
...House which claims descent from the biblical Queen of Sheba, a formal protest reached the Secretariat of the League of Nations last week. Prince Regent Taffari of Abyssinia declared in the name of the retired Empress Zauditu that he has seldom met with foreigners who do not desire to possess themselves of Abyssinia and to destroy the independence of the Ethiopian Empire. Specifically he protested to the League that Abyssinia, a League-member-state since 1923, should be obliged to tolerate the existence of a series of Anglo-Italian notes, exchanged last December, published recently, establishing: 1) The recognition...
...Gladstone founded a great tradition, since observed by many of his followers and successors with such pious fidelity: in public to speak a language of the highest and strictest principle and in private to pursue and possess every sort of woman...
...shall now employ all the energies which I still possess to preach before the American world the postulate that, in opposition to the Monroe Doctrine, we must stand and proclaim, all together and united, 'Latin America for Latin-Americans...
Significance. Since 1882 Chile and Peru have been attempting to hold a plebiscite to determine which shall possess in perpetuity the region of Tacna-Arica, wrested at that time by Chile from Peru. During the Harding and Coolidge administrations, the U. S., acting by request of Chile and Peru, sent first General Pershing and then General Lassiter to Tacna-Arica, there to supervise the holding, if possible, of a fair plebiscite...