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Word: possession (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Music-minded quibblers may note that Miss Astor does not possess the heavy-duty frame customarily required of successful female classical pianists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Apr. 21, 1941 | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

Birdsell and Tindale found that in the first generation Australian hybrids nearly all traces of native parentage vanish. Dark skin, flat noses and heavy brow ridges disappear, and the hybrids possess clear-cut white features...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Theory of Australian Tribes Disclosed by Birdsell at Museum | 4/15/1941 | See Source »

...armored-car spearhead could clear away land mines and landslides left by the Italians. Ahead of the sappers the R.A.F. continued its bombardment, destroying trucks and twisting bridges. Beyond Asmara lies Massaua, Eritrea's only good port, which the Royal Navy had tightly corked and hoped soon to possess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War, SOUTHERN THEATRE: Last Act in East Africa | 4/7/1941 | See Source »

...believe that, as Jesus sacrificed Himself for us, so should we be willing to sacrifice ourselves and what we possess to help needy men, women and children, everywhere on this earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Malvern to New Haven | 3/10/1941 | See Source »

...Most of the members came from the laboring class. . . . At that time, as well as later, we find that the upper classes were cautious and slow to act. . . . The fathers of the Constitution feared "too much democracy." They were afraid of what the mass of people, who did not possess property, would do to the few who did.-America's March Toward Democracy, by Harold O. Rugg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Textbooks Brought to Book | 3/3/1941 | See Source »

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