Word: possession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...real estate in the country. During the Revolutionary War, when his brother-in-law. Fielding Lewis, went bankrupt making guns for the Continental Army, Washington stayed prosperous because of the rise in the value of the land he had previously purchased. He kept all his business records and we possess most of them today...
...There have been colored golf balls recently (TIME, Dec. 31). White boxing gloves were planned for Illinois. Last week, the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association announced trials of a red tennis ball, said 10 possess increased visibility...
...basement often has apologetic recourse to the sales value of his purchase. Criticized, he will smile slyly, hint: "Wait and see what I can raise on it!" Under cover of this practical sounding alibi he conceals his curious love to finger old vellum, to scan rough, archaic type, to possess a fragment of the 18th century...
...state it in so many words, is that most of the students at the University are a "bunch of dumbells"; and with this opinion we are forced to agree, in the face of Mr. Roberts' quite apparent ability to decide just exactly what characteristics a person should possess to be "a dumbell...
...Theatre Guild has made mistakes in selecting plays, but as long as Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Lunt, the busiest and perhaps the best Manhattan mimes, have anything to do with it, it will possess an element of perfection. These two made their reputation with the Guild, and they married each other after meeting during the rehearsals of Clarence, nine years ago. Alfred Lunt went to college in Waukesha, Wis. His wife's name is Lynn Lily Louise Lunt. The Street Wolf is a young agent provocateur whose looks lure not-unwilling chippies to a Greenwich Village brothel. It goes...