Word: prided
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nevertheless on the way. Through better education for Negroes who show talent, much work has been done to develop Negro music to fill its rightful place as an indigenous art in this country. William Dawson and William Grant Still, whose symphonic works have been sponsored (perhaps unfortunately) by the pride of Philadelphia. Leopold Stokowski, are among the most important names associated with this movement...
...deeper story in Bloody Breathitt. Armed only with a camera, he spent two days among Breathitt's "483 square miles of scraggy mountains and lean, infertile hollows." Last week the Herald-Leader printed John Day's noteworthy report, suggesting some reasons why life is cheap and pride is dear in Breathitt County...
...galleries are a series of period rooms, christened the "Main Street of the Ages." They range from a medieval cloister to a Pennsylvania Dutch parlor. On the first floor are the supplementary study collections: ceramics, glass, textiles, laces, metals, ivories, etc. The period rooms are the museum's pride. One of Director Kimball's favorites is an English Tudor room from a hunting lodge of Henry VIII. Its donor, staid Publisher William L. McLean of the staid Philadelphia Bulletin, would turn in his grave if he could hear genial Fiske Kimball halt in it, boom out: "This...
President of Bausch & Lomb, and named in the indictment, is Martin Herbert Eisenhart, mild-mannered former chemist whose hobby is Boy Scouting. Jumping to the defense of his company, Mr. Eisenhart pointed with pride to the Navy Department's satisfaction with B. & L., declared that the Department of Justice and the Navy Department were obviously working at cross purposes. Said he: "I can see no constructive motive which could prompt our Government in bringing this kind of action against the company...
Last week in Baltimore 5,000 dentists from all corners of the U. S. came together like so many well-fitting bicuspids, to celebrate a century of scientific dentistry. The dentists had good cause to show their teeth in pride, for as an art, U. S. dentistry is the world's finest. From the days when Dentist Isaac Greenwood supplied grim-lipped George Washington with a set of wooden teeth (they splintered), a set of iron teeth (port wine rusted them), and a dressy set of bone teeth, U. S. dentists have come...