Word: possession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first time Her Majesty presided as Chairwoman of the Crown Council, despite the presence of Edward of Wales, who had been expected to sit as Chairman. Business before the Council consisted in routine exercise of the authority vested in the Crown. However, since the Council does not possess the King's power of creating peers, the usual...
...private, H.R.H. kept himself in trim by a daily game of squash racquets with the Duke of York at the Royal Automobile Club. As head of the Regency Council the "High and Mighty Prince" acted pro-tempore with the authority of King and Emperor-except that he did not possess the power of creating Peers, dubbing Knights...
Superficially the 20 United States of Venezuela possess a Government and Constitution modeled-like Brazil's-on that of the 48 United States of North America; but decades of practice have enabled shrewd General Gomez to circumvent or pervert almost all these scrap-of-paper safeguards of Democracy...
...Japanese are ardent sports; they play hard and they idolize those who play any game better than they. Thus Gehrig, Tilden, Tunney, Ruth are far greater names to them than that of Tsunenohana, their champion wrestler. Japanese baseball addicts possess a faculty which U.S. fans in some measure lack: they like to play as well as watch. Japanese players, unlike U.S. ones who speak largely of golf, poker and guzzling, like to hear about their U.S. counterparts. The little pitchers have big ears and the catchers wait anxiously every day to hear what is doing with big league catchers...
...wage a long-drawn war of attrition with the enemy germs in which the chances of medical victory are enormously enhanced. The old-fashioned CRISIS was the climax of a short, decisive skirmish between the infective germs and whatever white germ-eating corpuscles the patient was lucky enough to possess...