Word: preens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With that off his chest, President Few could take time last week to preen himself on a stroke both neighborly and shrewd. Only twelve miles of rolling red hills and scrubby pines separate the Gothic halls of Duke from the Georgian Colonial buildings of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill...
Western athletes preen themselves on their consistency, point to the rarity among them of a form reversal, a "flash in the pan." Last week, the favorite won in nearly every event. Favored Michigan won its 12th conference championship...