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...Possum meat am very, very fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Cannonism | 11/22/1926 | See Source »

...Distinguished Service," read the golden, three-inch medals awarded by the Roosevelt Memorial Association last week, presented by President Coolidge, to Governor Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania, George Bird Grinnell of Manhattan and Miss Martha Berry, of Possum Trot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: In Nomine T. R. | 5/25/1925 | See Source »

...Latin, rule four.] Conjugation of the active and passive indicative of regular verbs of the four conjugations, including -io verbs of the third conjugation; the infinitives, active and passive; the indicative and the infinitives of the irregular verbs sum and possum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Exams | 3/30/1925 | See Source »

...German nation has gained some peace of mind by refusing to believe what it did not wish to believe. Since January of this year Germany has thought that England was disgusted with her allies and that by playing possum for a time, she could tire out the remainder of the Entente. Unfortunately her peace of mind was doomed to be short-lived and has been nipped by a frosty note of censure from Lord Curzon. This cruel message from England is hardly loss curt than the refusal of France and Belgium. It even states that the British will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A LATE SPRING FROST | 5/16/1923 | See Source »

...quest to John Harvard's pantry. He probably realizes that he won't be received with a "Help yourself." In fact it is only fair to warn him that there is a cry about the Square, requesting that the same treatment be given him as the possum; "Carve him to the bone". A peculiar sort of hospitality, that! But for that matter a peculiar sort of quest; we have heard that growl before--it means business...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THAT GR-R-R-OWL | 11/19/1921 | See Source »

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