Word: possession
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dissatisfaction with the traditional polytheistic religion of the Arabs, who believed in a panoply of tribal gods and jinn, headed by a deity known as Allah, Says Muhammad's French biographer, Maxime Rodinson: "Both Jews and Christians despised the Arabs, regarding them as savages who did not even possess an organized church...
ATLANTA vs. TORONTO: The Maple Leafs upset the Islanders in a dramatic seven-game quarterfinal matchup last year, and possess Mike Palmateer, in Bruin mentor Don Cherry's opinion the best goalie in the league. Salming, Turnbull and Burrows compose the second-best trio of defensemen in the NHL. The late-season acquisition of Paul Gardner should add punch to an attack that relies almost exclusively upon Sittler and MacDonald...
...heaviest Ivy League competition the Crimson will have to deal with should come from Cornell and Penn. Although neither school managed to sneak into the top twenty at the indoor championships, both possess depth in several events and should pose a threat to the tracksters...
...reasons for this decision--I mean the real ones, not the ones dished up for public consumption--have not yet seen the light of day. Because I do not teach the fiction course, I possess no special knowledge of these matters. But I have reason to believe that there may well be a very interesting story here: a story in which professional jealousy, personal vendetta, career ambition and craven capitulation to bureaucratic politics have combined to deny freshmen the one writing course they really want to take...
However, the departments possess one last line of resistance--the matter of finances. If tutorials are to be staffed completely by professors, Walls points out, departments will simply need to appoint more professors. As Henry Adams remarked, "The whole problem of education is one of its cost in money...