Word: possessions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Frenchmen, girding themselves to defend their franc and keep it on gold, feel they have need of every weapon. They know that they possess Western Europe's most potent army. Last week their Navy Minister, pompous Georges Leygues, drew deafening Paris cheers with a speech which made British naval experts chuckle...
Possibly, but not to TIME'S knowledge. TIME uses the designation "one," not to belittle, but to indicate quickly to the reader that the person so designated does not possess any especially newsworthy identity...
...national inferiority complex no Nazi has helped Adolf Hitler so much as the taut, vivid, sometimes hysterical, little man whom all Germany knows as "The Doctor," famed Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, now Minister of Propaganda and Public Enlightenment. To an amazing degree Herr Hitler and Dr. Goebbels possess in common the trick of talking to grown Germans as if they were children, yet with such furious fire, conviction and intensity that the soul of the German listener is uplifted and soars in joy. "Germany can no longer be ranked as a second class power!" cries Hitler. "Be proud of Germany...
Come, worthy Greek, Ulysses, come, Possess these shores with...
...spend the night in sleep. Though Housman considers poetry "more physical than intellectual," "the majority of mankind notoriously and indisputably do not . . . possess the organ by which poetry is perceived." But he himself, while shaving in the morning, has to watch his thoughts because, "if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases...