Word: possession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...copper mines in and around Butte. It has recently received much publicity through litigation with W. A. Clark over title to various Montana copper properties (TIME, Sept. 3). Anaconda also has large foreign properties, notably the Chile Copper Co., acquired in 1923 from the Guggenheims and said to possess the largest copper deposit in the world; the Andes Copper Mining Co., also in Chile, and extensive zinc and lead holdings in Poland and Silesia. An extremely important Anaconda subsidiary is the American Brass Co., the world's largest manufacturer of brass products. In 1927, Anaconda and its Chile companies together...
...into the realm where utility is forgotten and pleasure begins. Thus, a tribal dance pleading for the gift of rain is not art, whereas a ballet, tripped for its own sake, may be. In Manhattan, last week Sculptor George Gray Barnard defined art as the creations of those who possess the "Great...
...principle may be extended to the art of music, in which tonal variations are evanescent. Great virtuosi, who know how to mingle murmurous, tinkling and strident sounds, might be said to possess the "Great Ear." Master perfumers presumably have the "Great Nose...
...carefully supervised by department heads and tutors, there still remains the necessity of development from within the courses themselves. Only when the directors of individual courses realize that where their subject impinges upon another related one, it there also interlocks with it, can education really be said to possess proper coherence...
Last week the last Pollier corporation was found to possess only a rented office, some hired furniture and not a sou in the bank. Friends of Professor Pollier sent bouquets and potted flowers to brighten his cell, declared that he is innocent, the mere dupe of a master swindler in London, one "Michael Neutski, a Russian...