Word: prided
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cathedral of St. John the Divine has been a long time agrowing. Already some $16,000,000 and 52 years of labor have gone into it-and it is still only two-thirds built. Last week the Right Rev. William Thomas Manning, 79, Episcopal Bishop of New York, whose pride & joy the Cathedral is, proposed to finish it. He asked cathedral-goers for $10,000,000 more to do the job. With that amount the job might be done in six years...
...Pride and Frustration. Then the British moved in. They cut French General Oliva Roget's line of communication with his base at Beirut. Into Damascus clanked a column of Sherman tanks on which Union Jacks had been freshly painted. Up from Cairo flew General Sir Bernard Paget, British commander in chief in the Middle East, who had several hundred thousand men on call. Paget ordered Roget to "cease fire." The Frenchman said that he would not take orders from a Britisher. Paget suggested that Roget call his French superior, General Humbolt, at Beirut. Roget pointed out that the British...
Dave Downing is said to have enjoyed himself at the circus last Saturday night and has even better prospects in view for the future. We point with pride to our prediction of last week that the thrush of Company 3, Jim Davison, would come closer to the Manual and Memo; his recitation on S & A 15 this week startled the whole class including our rather incredulous pedagogue...
...SERVICE NEWS could perform a real service if it set about encouraging the student body to take advantage of the coaching and facilities offered here at Harvard, instead of taking pride in witty fault-finding. Give us a break, and at the same time encourage athletics; Harvard needs them. A member of the team. Howie Foster...
...fact, "radio at its best." CBC gives the public "radio drama of originality, emotional appeal and intellectual integrity. . . ." CBC's dramatic programs show "courage and leadership in attacking vital, current human problems." The three judges said sadly of radio in general: "Frankly ... we felt no great surge of pride. . . . There was a surprising lack of1) freshness of approach, 2) imagination, 3) virility, 4) objectivity [in] both writing and production...