Word: prided
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...states without feeling, consciously or not, that this was poetry, and of an epic sort: Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado . . . Kansas, Kentucky and Maine . . . Nebraska, Ohio, the Dakotas . . . Vermont and Wisconsin and Wyoming. The voices from the floor were rich with the flavor of the broad land. They spoke with local pride: Georgia, the empire state of the South . . . the great, free state of Maryland . . . Virginia, the cradle of democracy . . . Hawaii, standing on the threshold of statehood...
What does college do for you? There are all kinds of partial answers-spoken sometimes in jest, sometimes in anger and once in a while in pride. But there have been no actuarial facts to give a statistician's picture of what the nation's 4,966,000 college graduates are like...
...above), fishwives, shopgirls, nuns, monks and scholars jammed the Piazza del Duomo. They had come to see the reinstallation of the famed Baptistery doors of the cathedral. Sculptor Ghiberti's 15th Century doors, with their intricate panels, each like a separate, delicate canvas, for centuries had been the pride of Florence. Worthy of Paradise, Michelangelo had said, and all Florence had agreed...
...City Power & Light Co.'s $12 million issue of first-mortgage bonds last week. They had planned to re-offer it at 102 (less than half a point profit) but found no buyers. The bankers finally cut the price 48½? (½? below the purchase price), swallowed their pride and a $702.24 loss plus expenses. Wall Street talked darkly about the evils of competitive bidding...
...that the Ritz tradition was maintained. Though Ritz had had an active hand in London's Carlton and a dozen other big European hotels, and had less actively sponsored the tri-continental Ritz-Carlton group, no other hotel ever achieved the rococo elegance of his Paris pride...