Word: possession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Although the Germans possess most of the originals which have been our models, they have has nothing resembling our plaster collection, which is famous throughout artistic Germany for its size, scope and absolute accuracy. Such great interest has been aroused in German architectural circles that the success of the proposed collection is assured...
...number of such seamen protem,' has increased since the appearance of federally operated boats," he declared. "Thus, of the thousands who feel the wanderlust when school is closing, hundreds possess fathers who know somebody who knows somebody else who has a friend on the Government payroll.. So they gain access with their brand-new oilskins and their letters of introduction to ship offices on Broadway, New York, while the old-timers wait outside...
...spoke of Fisk's President, Dr. Fayette McKenzie (white), spoke of him, for one thing, as a bigoted Puritan, for another, as a race partisan. He cited the case of a Negro girl who had been sent home because she could not explain how she happened to possess a $5 bill. Here there was a knot. Dr. Du Bois went on to tell how President McKensie had "jim-crowed" the students of Fisk, had caused a colored Bishop to be insulted. Said he: "I am told that the Jubilee Club gave a concert down town this year. Not only...
Harvard buildings have this merit, if no other, that they remind the observer of nothing else under the sun. Collectively, they are a menagerie of architectural oddities; individually, certain of them possess singular beauty and proportion. University Hall especially is often cited for its purity and simplicity...
...deciding the educational policy of a college, however, the danger of devotion to a middle course is the danger of coming to possess an ill-defined, spotty character standing clearly for neither one thing nor another...