Word: possession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...common stock rather than by overloading itself with a corresponding amount of bonded indebtedness. The 300,000 shareholders of the Company will be given the right to subscribe to the $150,000,000 new shares at par; since the stock now sells at about 125, these "rights to subscribe" possess in themselves a value of about $3 apiece. "Tel. & Tel.'s" President, Harry B. Thayer, began his career as a shipping clerk in the Western Electric Co., back in 1881. After proving him self a success in the shipping, manufacturing, engineering, buying, sell ing, accounting, legal and other departments...
...easy to play then bandit sash and a visor; it is easy to be anarchist when, like Desperate Ambrose you possess a "veadetta hat". But to attend royalty in knee parts and yet remain that is a deferment matter. The had of King George has become indeed the ironical best result of human philosophy...
...peaceful friends are, I am afraid, forgetful that had their spiritual ancesters been as squeamish as themselves they would have all been quietly and efficiently incinerated, and thereby, deprived of progeny whether of the flesh or of the intellect. Had, there been no Gustavus Adolphus, we should not now possess the ineathnable blessings of Methodism. Hgit Whitney...
...others who have been abroad recently of German students struggling with poverty, hunger, lack of every kind of equipment and even textbooks, to satisfy an intellectual craving which is not diminished by material hardships is an almost incredible one, from an American point of view. That any one should possess such an unquenchable thirst for knowledge seems strange; that an entire student body should possess it is more than remarkable. Occasionally, it is true, seniors on the verge of graduation feel a faint and indefinable sensation of regret that there are still some few fields of human knowledge into which...
...that under the protection of the Star-Spangled Banner they have obtained advantages which their own country could not offer them, but it is also true that they took with them to the New World a sum of gifts which only a people with an old civilization can possess and which undoubtedly have been one of the co-efficients of America's present prosperity...