Word: priding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...duty of governments to abolish all tariffs or taxes on nitrogen fertilizers and to secure their transport at preferential freight rates, because the more nitrate fertilization is encouraged the greater will be the agricultural produce derived from a given region. Be coming mildly technical, he pointed with thoroughgoing pride to the new German synthetic fertilizers nitrate of lime and nitrophoska. "The demand for nitrophoska," exulted Herr Doktor Bueb, "has frequently been greatly in excess of the available supply." Aboard the Lutzow, last week, there were few if any "hush hush" conferences among the chemical tycoons; and no immediate prospect exists...
Fraternity-pinned chests swelled with pride at a piece in the Magazine of Sigma Chi, by its editor, one Chester W. Cleveland...
...glum and docile crowd coagulated before one of the National City Bank's branches in Manhattan an early morning last week. Behind the bank's bolted doors and copper-framed windows employes pulled themselves tense with the expectation of rushing business, and glowed with pride at the immediate success of their President Charles Edwin Mitchell's new banking idea. President Mitchell had announced that this bank (biggest in the U. S.) would loan $50 to $1,000 at 6% interest to responsible employed persons, with no other security than their own signatures and the endorsement...
...Madden's popularity at home had not diminished. His constituents were disgusted with his political associate Mayor William Hale (-'Big Bill") Thompson, and some of them had determined to nominate a Congressman of their own race, a Negro. But Thompsonism could not touch him nor could race pride overcome so long and fine a record as his. Mr. Madden was comfortably renominated. Appointment of a Negro to succeed him was expected, the first Negro to go to Congress in 25 years, the first ever from the North...
Beside the huge Fokker in which Byrd flew over the North Pole, the Josephine Ford, stood the yellowed Pride of Detroit, one of three trim Stinson planes, in which William Brock and Edward Schlee flew from Newfoundland to Japan, almost three-quarters of the way around the world...