Word: pride
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...does someone have to gain as a director of HSA, Inc?" Burke replied, "I'm not sure a person should have anything to gain as a director," but Stone countered, "You're quite right; we do get something out of it. There's a tremendous sense of accomplishment and pride. There's no graft, we get no salary...
...circulation of the blood: "He did delight to be in the darke, and . . . had Caves made in the Earth, in which in Summer time he delighted to meditate . . . Had he been stiffe, starcht, and retired, as other formall Doctors are, he had known no more than they [for] Pride has been one of the greatest stoppers of the Advancement of Learning ... He was wont to say that man was but a great mischievous Baboon ... He kept a pretty young wench . . . which I guesse he made use of ... as King David did ... After his Booke of the Circulation of the Blood...
...more than financial improvement is needed to take the futility and ennui out of military life and make it an attractive and respectable career, but the "green pastures plan" could put an end to widespread feather-bedding, and to small and unnecessary jobs in which no one could take pride...
...addition to serving Harvard customers, Goldman sent three sons to Harvard, and two grandsons also attended the University. "When my son got his degree, the dean called him 'The Pride of Harvard;' One of them had his 25th reunion recently. The papers had a picture of the two who are lawyers. They called them 'The Goldman Boys...
...Farmer's pride but the Prisoner...