Word: possession
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...educated gentlemen. Mr. Black in his lectures promises to meet just these needs and to afford through a series of eight talks much of that grounding in literature which the busy are not able to get, and which everyone who has the instincts of an educated man wishes to possess...
...Free" by William Vaughn Moody. As in almost all of Mr. Moody's poems, the language is vigorous and the thought sustained. That he has a large vocabulary and is able to use it well is one of the chief elements of whatever poetic strength the author may possess, - and one of the most notable features of the poem in question is the almost complete absence of commonplace expressions...
...which, it is almost needless to say, it is infinitely inferior. And for several faulty English constructions in the opening paragraph, there is not the excuse of delineating an opium eater's vagaries of thought. In general, this kind of writing demands a power which very few college men possess, and too often lures men beyond their depth...
Although the book is intended, according to the preface, primarily for beginners in the study of geology, it is also full of interesting suggestions to more advanced students while the peculiar clearness and simplicity of its mode of presentation render it intelligible to the average reader who may not possess a technical knowledge of geology or biology...
...Tornadoes possess a vorticular whirling motion? (Hazen: Tornadoes; Ferrel: Popular Treatise on the Winds...