Word: possession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some lack of labor was readily forecasted when the immigration bill was passed, but the supporters of the bill were blessed with much more extensive point of view than the manufacturers now possess. The latter regard the question merely in relation to the immediate benefits which industry will or will not gain from it. The former recognized the fact that immigration to this country had attained such enormous proportions and was of such a deplorably low character that it was no longer possible to assimilate the newcomers. They formed a constantly growing abscess in the body of our nation which...
Five of the Crimson's future opponents will face strong teams tomorrow in encounters which should foretell what strength the coming visitors to the Stadium will possess against the University. Yale, faces Iowa, Princeton meets Colgate, Dartmouth tackles Middlebury, Brown invades Syracuse and Centre journeys to Virginia Polytechnic Institute...
...expected that Middlebury will present about the same strength as they showed at the opening game of the season against the University, whereas Dartmouth will possess its full strength for the first time this season...
...their deficiency if they neglect their opportunities. Even in a democracy, and in any form of civil policy that has ever existed or can be conceived, power is not evenly distributed. Public office gives power, business positions and wealth do the same, and so do knowledge and the possession of a trained mind. Strangely enough the word talents which is used in the parable to denote a sum of money has now come to signify mental capacity. So much the better for our purpose, because it gives point to the appropriate moral here. Many of the men before me will...
They see about them thousands of young men who have never been to college already commanding substantial salaries. They rightly feel that they possess a tremendous advantage over these men, yet in trying to cash it they find this advantage discounted at every turn...