Word: prided
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course the American public is very glad that Commander Byrd is both American and a Nordic. For there is in those facts further proof that in Americanism and Nordicism lie germs of greatness which never take on alien soil. But there is sufficient reason why at this time true pride should be expressed that in an age so mechanical as to be morose, so intricate as to lose its intrigue one human has enough of the joie de vivre to wish to risk...
Many a young German cadet rubbed dirt into his small dueling wounds that they might grow the greater. Many a major's pride was the livid white scar running from lip to ear which marks the man tough enough to endure the severing and sewing on of a whole cheek...
...Lisbon harbor droned a big Portugese naval plane. The heart of old Prince Henry the Navigator (1394-1460), who used to call international pilots' councils and who sent Gomez and Fernandez to feel their way down to and around the terrible tip of unknown Africa, would have swelled with pride to see Lieutenants Moreira and Neves-Terriera head out over the broad Atlantic for the Madeira Islands, some 800 miles away. . . . Nightfall did not find them in Funchal. Their plane had pitched to the sea, as if crippled, but it was not crippled?only out of gas. And they were...
...rising than receding menace. In dealing with it, the pacific idealism diffused among the Caucasions and not foreign to the awakening Asiatic offers a prospect less fraught with catastrophe than were the contacts with the Indian and the negro. But it is a prospect that inevitably involves wounded pride...
...referred to the International Electro-Technical Commission of which he and his fellow travelers are members. They had come to Manhattan for a ten-day sitting, the first they ever held in the U. S. The lean gentleman was Colonel Rookes Evelyn Bell Crompton, who takes pardonable pride, not only in his Boer War decorations and his fast game of squash, but in having founded the commission...