Word: possession
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Falling into a somewhat special class is the Music Department which, though it does not offer tutorial, does present concentrators with a chance to study "basic piano," if they do not possess any training, as it is almost identical with the studies formerly undertaken by Juniors and Sophomores...
...transcendent power concentrated in atomic weapons makes politically possible . . . the domination of the world by a single sufficiently large state, provided that state holds the monopoly of atomic weapons. The threat of mutual destruction by atomic weapons of all the states that might possess them, assuming that there are more than one, makes certain that each such state will strive to acquire the monopoly. But a monopoly of atomic weapons can be secured only by gaming world domination...
Journalist Ralph Ingersoll). "Present-day psychiatry," he said last week before the New York Academy of Medicine, "does not possess any satisfactory definition of mental illness or neurosis." To illustrate, Dr. Zilboorg told a story...
Harvard College does not pretend to possess a perfect grading system. Essay type examinations cannot be evaluated with mathematical exactness, and the grader cannot be completely objective no matter how hard he may try to prevent his personal views from affecting the mark he assigns a blue book. But the number of complaints from students who felt they had been victimized by methods somewhat less than just indicates that unfairness in the grading system has not been reduced to the unavoidable minimum...
Even so, Dr. Mackenzie's revelation meant that the U.S. was no longer the only nation in the world to possess the wherewithal for making The Bomb. And the problems of eventual international control were growing while the Security Council talked. Trib Correspondent Peter Kihss reported that at least eight other nations have Government-sponsored programs of some significance, and that at least 14 more have already produced or located the vital raw materials...