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Word: possession (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with disdain from all outside the present decade and eulogizes the merits of strictly coeval writers, particularly those on the extreme left. They adhere solely to those authors who embrace all of the current fads and employ an abstruse symbolism to achieve reality. The chief virtue which literature may possess is newness. The new may be old tomorrow, but it is at least new today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BETWEEN RIGHT AND LEFT | 3/16/1926 | See Source »

Journalistic and photographic ability will come into their own this evening when all Freshmen who possess talent actual or potential, in these two lines report at the CRIMSON office at 14 Plympton Street to put their faculties into use. The preliminary meeting will be held at 7 o'clock, when experienced CRIMSON editors will explain to the new candidates the scope of their activitis and the extent of their duties. At the same time a last chance will be offered to Juniors to compete for positions on the editorial staff. All three competitions: Freshman News, Freshman Photographic and Junior Editorial...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1929 JOURNALISTS GET FIRST CRIMSON CHANCE | 3/1/1926 | See Source »

...oasis-city of Jarabub, an excessively important water supply station for the trans-Libyan caravans. There in 1855 the potent sheik, Sidi Mohammed ben Ali ben Es Senussi el Khettabi el Hassani el Idrissi el Mehajiri, established the stronghold of his fraternity or sect, the Senussites, who continue to possess tremendous influence in the region...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Jarabub | 2/22/1926 | See Source »

Whatever warrant for criticism I may possess has come from a lifetime of professional public singing and teaching of singing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Song Contest | 1/26/1926 | See Source »

...days later Harvey Firestone, tire manufacturer, who is opening great rubber plantations in Liberia, told the investigators of the House of Representatives that, while the Philippines possess all the qualifications for producing rubber, no attempt to invest capital in rubber plantations can be made there until the land laws are revised and the political situation stabilized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Rubber | 1/25/1926 | See Source »

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