Word: prided
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...enters the second year of her financial support of the war. Large figures no longer attract attention and have become the rule rather than the exception. Yet anyone who attempts a mental picture of a billion dollars or a million men is astounded by their magnitude. We may take pride in the greatness of our resources, but we may wonder at the strain they are now standing...
...runs in every phase of our national life. There have been many mistakes and much confusion, but we may safely say that the achievements of our nation in the year just passed, outstrips those effected by any other country in a similar period of time. It is no self-pride or narrow national glorification to render tribute to the always accelerating accomplishments of our people...
...need less motion picture patriotism and journalistic camouflage and more honest effort and sound support of our Government. Our strength lies in truth. When thousands of British are falling it does no good to assert in huge headlines that "American Troops Stop Germans." It appeals to a selfish national pride, but does little toward winning...
...Honor System at Princeton passed beyond its experimental stage years ago. It has become an established procedure, to which our undergraduates have given a loyal adherence--not reluctantly, nor sullenly, but in a spirit of pride and enthusiasm; for this is particularly their system--they conceived it and put it into practice. That the success of the enterprise started 25 years ago is due wholly to the fact that the idea originated within the undergraduate body, spontaneously, irresistibly. Their desire, their determination, rein-forced by succeeding generations of college men, has caused the idea to become an unquestioned success...
...slogan now, and it should have been so for years back. It has taken the war to make us see things right. When I look back and think of the fine specimens of physical manhood who have gone across the seas to fight out battles my heart swells with pride, but when I think of those other men, the great majority, in fact, who were not such fine specimens I do not feel so glad...