Word: possessor
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...sole possessor or possessors of military air power could stop anyone from going to war. And international action to enforce peace would be enormously simplified...
Ananada Mahidol, King of Siam, Brother of the Moon, Half-Brother of the Sun, Supreme Arbiter of the Ebb and Flow of Tides, and possessor of the Four & Twenty Golden Umbrellas, was quietly at school in Lausanne, Switzerland. There he has been learning English. Next September, when he comes of kingly age (17), he will formally ascend Thailand's Golden Lotus Throne...
...noted for its athletic prowess in other fields, Eliot has for years been the possessor of the Agassiz Cup for the inter-House crew championship. Situated on the corner of Memorial Drive and Boylston Street, the House commands a beautiful view of the Charles on one side, but overlooks the less inviting subway yards on another...
Lefty Bud Waldstein, last year's outstanding twirler, is expected to lead the list. He compiled the best cumulative pitching record last year, although Burgy Ayres was the possessor of the lowest earned run average for the season. Ayres will be back again this year but will be unable to start baseball practice until the present hockey season is over...
...TMWCTD is now so much the possession of Monty Woolley that even its authors' right to a share in it seems questionable. Possessor of the most Edwardian visage of his era, bon vivant, trust-funder, darling of Manhattan's cafe society, onetime Yale English instructor, 53-year-old Actor Woolley plays Sheridan Whiteside with such vast authority and competence that it is difficult to imagine anyone else attempting it. As one of his intimates has remarked: "At last the old party has got the role he's been rehearsing for all his life...