Word: pride
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fine, but a few bugs have to be ironed out." After five years, these bugs have unionized, formed shifts, and now buzz from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. each evening in the first level fluorescent lights. The sound has been one of Lamont's distinctive features, a source of pride to the library staff and the insect kingdom...
...place in the open, which was courageous considering what happened to his grandfather, William Henry Harrison, who appeared at his inauguration without hat and overcoat, and took more than an hour to read his 8,000-word inaugural address, the longest in U.S. history. Never was author's pride more bitterly rewarded; he caught a chill and died a month later...
Bethlehem Steel Corp. was hard hit in pride and pocketbook two months ago. Then, a federal district court in Scranton annulled its 1937 purchase of the Williamsport Wire Rope Co. on the ground that a federal judge had been bribed to approve the deal (TIME, Oct. 27). Last week Bethlehem found a way to clear its name and get back Williamsport. It agreed to pay Williamsport stockholders an extra $6,000,000 for a clear title to the company (it had originally paid $3,300,000 for the business while it was in receivership). In approving the terms...
...worthy of a serious person's attention. I was concentrating on bio-chemical sciences and had to spend more time in laboratories and in class work generally than most of my colleagues. But all of these, Paul Sweezy, Gene Bolio, Ayres Brinser, Don Field, made it a point of pride not to worry about our academic work, though some of us managed to do quite well in it and to consider that The CRIMSON was our major educative enterprise. Indeed I could say of myself that I fied to The CRIMSON because I was bored with the curriculum...
...staff woke up one morning--if it had gone to bed the night before--to find that the paper was 50 years old. It was a hard-earned maturity, and the Crimeds looked back with pride, as various and sundry thousands climbed on the bandwagon of congratulation...