Word: possess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Phillips statement. Cezanne manages to create something besides the object which he is representing; and that "something" which he creates is the basis of his painting. Take the still-life piece in which we find some fruit and a napkin lying on a table. Now the apples possess. To go further, we may say that Cezanne's painting of an object is, in reality, a presentation of that object's essential characteristics; the object itself, as something which actually exists, is lost; what we find on the canvas is the form, or definition expressed through the medium of paint...
...Japanese ships, most of which were actually pulled off by a certain designer of infernal machines named Waldemar Potzsch, a German-born British spy. When Potzsch was arrested in Denmark, Captain Stevens had the job of persuading the Danes to let him go, even though he was found to possess plans of a large German ship...
...feelings of inferiority which plagued a number of the patients were caused by "wife's, parents' and friends' exhortations, threats and so forth, and it is, we believe, these influences which . . . are largely responsible for those personality trends which alcoholic patients have been supposed to possess in common...
...screwed into his grave. To send his grinning ghost into ectospasms, cinemaddicts into delicious shivers, Uncle's post-mortem instructions command his loving heirs to foregather at nightfall in his gloomy mansion amongst the bayous, where they can be scared out of such wits as they possess after being left out of his will. The frolic is furthered by a rubber-masked murderer...
...possess the strongest Navy and Air Force in the Far East and dominate the South Sea markets. The South Seas belong to the Far East and Japan is entitled to share the wealth of those regions, which Europe snatched while Japan was self-isolated. It is necessary to rectify Japan's economic portion, and now is the psychological moment, while European powers with interests in the South Seas are preoccupied.. . . It is sometimes proposed that Dutch oil be forcibly seized, but other methods can be tried at first. . . . We do not expect Britain, France and Holland readily...