Word: possession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said Dr. Vincent: "It is a fact . . . that the natural advantages which the rural districts possess are more than offset by the better health protection afforded by the city...
...which led to similar commissions on the part of many other people. . . . The Queen** greeted me with a good morning in a gentle, agreeable voice. . . . 'Do you play bridge?' the Prince asked me. 'No, Sir, 1 have never had the opportunity to learn, nor do I possess the necessary mental concentration for the game,' was my reply. . . . There was a light tap at the door and a messenger entered. He brought a note written in pencil which read: 'Please make me a sketch of our beloved Queen as she lies there on her bed surrounded...
...authors, students, and sight-seers. As a spectacle alone this varied gathering is well worth looking at. But for anyone who is something more than a gaping tourist Geneva in September is far more than just another great sight. It offers a broad and fascinating experience to all who possess any interest in international affairs, be their special field politics, economics, medicine, education, manners and customs, or what-not. It offers opportunity as well as experience. And no group which comes to Geneva has as fine a chance for development along these many different lines as that composing the students...
...will be comforting to those who possess unlimited faith in the solvent power of American ideals, to learn that immigrants, however diverse their tongues and separate their races, turn at once with great and spontaneous enthusiasm to the culinary preferences of their adopted land. So long as the democratic spirit of the cafeteria reduces all classes to the lowly and patient condition of waiters upon the unhurried gods of the kitchen, so long as the savor of corned beef and cabbage waters the mouths of the multitude, so long the institutions and faiths of America will go on, uninjured...
...formality of receiving a degree. It is not strange. The whole record of those four years, insofar as it can be photographed and walled up in sentences and paragraphs, is collected between the covers, and to give the Album a place on even the dustiest shelf is to possess, when it was richest, a corner of the Yard...