Word: prided
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wait Up. In Conway, Ark., Fire Chief K. W. Parker swallowed his pride, complained publicly that the citizens were always beating the firemen to the scene and blocking operations...
...Pride in the college and a tremendous feeling of "belonging" pervade the green Hanover mists. Dartmouth men are proud of the rugged outdoor life for which their school is famous. They like to know that most girls would sacrifice a leg for an invitation to the Winter Carnival and that the world looks on them as jolly, intelligent good fellows...
...Grandview is The Absolutely Average U.S. Community. The commercial and political implications of being dead average are, of course, enormous. With Jimmy's help, the town gets a swelled head and frantically markets its opinions, which soon become worthless. Eventually, Jimmy shames the financially ruined community into civic pride and resourceful action...
Whether they have affected ruffles or roadsters, gentlemen have always been the pride of the picturesque college town of Charlottesville in Albermarle County, Virginia. The University glories in its distinguished founder and first rector, Thomas Jefferson, and the names of Presidents Madison and Munroe appear on the records as "visitors," 1819 equivalent of trustees. The wealthiest state university per capita in the nation, it was recently termed a collection of "rich young wastrels" by Time Magazine. More kind and accurate many years earlier was the description of the undergraduate product by Professor Archibald Cary Coolidge of Harvard at the inauguration...
...course of which the two clubs never actually got together for a discussion, the Dramatic Club spurned the proposal. The primary official reason for the turn-down was that HD wants to continue working on "experimental drama;" but lbsen is hardly that, and the real cause seems to be pride in the organization's name and history...