Word: possession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there is little or no systematic policing of false advertisements. The vitamine bunk shows practically 100 percent efficiency in complying with the advertising laws, but I believe that the continued sale of these products is doomed to failure for purely psychological reasons. A property medicine to be successful, must possess two prime attributes, first, it must have a disagreeable taste or odor and, second, it must show immediate physiological results. The common yeast vitamine tablets and similar patent medicines must of necessity fail in these attributes, unless drugs are added, because they are tasteless and because we all have...
Last spring Technology was able to take only four first places, and all of the winners, Bawden, Dandrow, MacMahon, and Spitz, are now ineligible for the team. Moreover the Tech yearlings last year were none too strong. As a result, the teams that will meet on Saturday seem to possess almost equal strength. What the Crimson has gained by the two meets on the spring trip is in part counter-balanced by the fact that the M. I. T. runners will hold the contest on their own field. To quote Mr. H. C. Pierce, captain of the 1920 Tech track...
...reasoning such as this, emerging from the heavy fog-bank which surrounds Russia, that has given us what knowledge we possess of the typical Bolshevik and his scrambled philosophy. In an individual case it means simply this: the Soviet Government backed by the secret police, supported by Red bayonets, representing the extreme wing of a radical party with a membership of 600,000 out of a population of 150,000,000, "expropriates" a man's property without compensation. This property is then 'given to the people",--that is to everybody except the bourgeoisie, the former property owners...
...native dissatisfaction, beyond an ethereal vision of the glories of nationhood, are not clear. The Philippines under American protection have autonomy. If permitted to go entirely free, they would gain little more control of their government than they have today, and they would lose what advantages they now possess under American guidance and protection...
...Farm Bloc is a farm bloc pure, plain, and simple-and as such has a very definite place in the political life of the country. As a whole we Americans can get stirred up over very small things, and we have apparently done so in this case. Luckily we possess the compensating ability of being able to cool down as quickly as flare up. It seems as if this ability might now prove useful...