Word: prided
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beyond the limits of his nature. Limited by his finiteness, he pretends that he is not limited. Sensing his transcendence, man "assumes that he can gradually transcend [his finiteness] until his mind becomes identical with universal mind. All his intellectual and cultural pursuits . . . become infected with the sin of pride.. . . The religious dimension of sin," says Dr. Niebuhr, "is man's rebellion against God. . . . The moral and social dimension of sin is injustice...
...Ochsner innovation is the special recovery room to which patients are taken immediately after operations. Each bed is piped for oxygen; emergency equipment like blood plasma is at hand; nurses are always in the room; relatives and friends are kept out. The room is Ochsner's pride...
Five hundred new cinemansions containing half a million new seats were built in 1947-the biggest year of theater construction since the booming '20s. This fact, announced by the trade magazine Boxoffice, seemed cause more for alarm than pride. For in the last three months more & more seats have been empty in U.S. movie houses. Only the showiest spectacles seemed sure to attract the customer's eye; three of Variety's top-grossing six were in Technicolor...
...Sloan had sold only six serious paintings. To stay alive he did magazine illustrating and taught art. Nowadays he makes a modest living from his painting, but it is his early pictures that sell. Sloan himself looks back on his "Ashcan" oils with an equal mixture of nostalgia and pride. "Young people won't realize," he says mildly, "how sweet . . . sweet and sad Manhattan was before Prohibition. The new skyline looks like a broken comb. We're the dirt between the teeth, unfortunately. And who wants to paint a street all strewn with automobiles...
...skater and later Chase's assistant coach for the Varsity, who fired the shot heard round the rinks. When his A.H.A. sextet broke camp before Christmas, he stole Brundage's thunder and let his skaters know that they were to make up the American Olympic team. Brundage, his presidential pride raging, revoked his previous backing of the A.H.A., and used his prerogative to back the A.A.U. The initial skirmish of the Olympic civil...