Word: pride
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...golden plates. The Duke and Duchess of Veragua came, and the Prince of Wales, who was later to become Edward VII. So did the Infanta Eulalia of Spain, but when she learned that Mrs. Palmer was, after all, an "innkeeper's wife," she salved her pride by arriving hours late, and accepting her hostess' curtsy without a smile...
...excuse. One of these involves the discovery, early one spring morning, of a warm blanket and four cold bottles of beer under a blooming elm tree in the Yard. Although diligently catalogued in the lost and found file, neither the beer nor the blanket was ever called for. Apparently pride rideth before a call...
...desire to see direct results of one's efforts is great, as is the desire to point to these results with pride. Advising the faculty does not present a great many opportunities to do this. Hence there is apt to be restriction of such activities. Yet the large number of requests for suggestions and criticism by the various departments of the University indicates the importance of such student-faculty communications...
...idealism of cloche. He asks his country to follow Holland, Sweden, and Switzerland--former great powers which have devoted themselves to the enrichment of world culture. "Today," he writes, "the anger over our humiliation should be turned against those who are to blame for it, against the overweening pride of those who led us to the abyss, and against the lack of judgement of those who subjected themselves to this leadership without any inner protest...
...idealism of Goethe. He asks his country to follow Holland, Sweden, and Switzerland--former great powers which have devoted themselves to the enrichment of world culture. "Today," he writes, "the anger over our humiliation should be turned against those who are to blame for it, against the overweening pride of those who led us to the abyss, and against the lack of judgment of those who subjected themselves to this leadership without any inner protest...