Word: possession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most U. S. colleges there exist two kinds of faculty members: the teaching professors and the research professors. Dear to the heart of the undergraduate is many a teaching professor. Him they afterward remember for what little light and learning they possess, and also for his eccentricities, for good fellowship. When they grow old they swap anecdotes about him; if they become Trustees they like to see him prosper in his fashion. But the research professors, who sometimes regard the civilizing of students as a vague, even faintly vulgar waste of time, are the darlings of their erudite colleagues...
...some of the miners in West Virginia as disgraceful to the United States. He presented, however, a bright picture of the alleviating influence exerted on the miners by what he termed "family paternalism" on the part of some operators. He protested against the prevalent belief that all American laborers possess automobiles radios, and all modern conveniences. He remarked that in the course of his survey he had found localities where men and women were denied even the elementary decencies...
...decree under which the seizures were made in Italy last week reads in part: "Property is not an end in itself. Those who own it have special duties with regard to the collectivity of the people, represented by the State. Wealth is something which belongs to all, and to possess it you must know how to administer...
...into condition for games by putting on the plays of opposing teams. Their development as an eleven has been hindered somewhat in this way, but their play against three outside teams, Tufts Seconds, St. Anselm's, and Brown Freshmen, all of whom they held scoreless, has shown them to possess power...
...many months so many people had saved money and borrowed money and borrowed on their borrowings to possess themselves of the little pieces of paper by virtue of which they became partners in U. S. Industry. Now they were trying to get rid of them even more frantically than they had tried to get them. Stocks bought without reference to their earnings were being sold without reference to their dividends. At around noon there came the no-bid menace. Even in a panic-market, someone must buy the "dumped" shares, but stocks were dropping from 2 to 10 points between...