Word: priding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...singular explanation of the pride in antiques so rife, in the eyes of Yale, at Harvard, comes with the notice that Yale tears down old buildings to build new whereas Harvard merely has fires in the old ones and then repairs them. It is less expensive to cater to ancestor-worship in whatever its form than to be creative. It is also safer. If you brush your teeth criss-cross instead of up and down because you like it better, you should go to Yale. If you do so because grandpa did, better go to Harvard...
...business-like manner make him a difficult mark for the anvil chorus. There is always the feeling that he is working to the best of his ability on a difficult job. Above all he has won the respect of his athletic pupils. Harvard football, win or lose, can pride itself on having a coach who is a credit to the game...
...Since King Ferdinands death," Her Majesty went on, "Ileana had never left my side. . . . Her earnest sense of duty and love for me are a guarantee that she will always be the pride of her country and the royal family...
...last week, to his mingled anger, awe and pride, to the horror of persons who view with alarm the increased supervision of private life by Federal authority, and to the satisfaction of persons who like to think of the U. S. Government as "Uncle Sam," Eric H. Palmer Jr.'s license was suspended for 90 days by the Federal Radio Commission, whose chairman, Rear Admiral William Hannum Grubb Bullard, addressed Eric H. Palmer Jr. as follows...
...finest tribute one university can extend another is in voluntarily subordinating its own pride of tradition in deference to what it considers a prior right. To the Indiana athletic authorities goes the credit for an action of this most graceful sort. Through their courtesy the older Crimson will appear on the field next Saturday. Indiana gains in popular acknowledgement of a thoughtful gesture, what she has willingly for saken of her own tradition. Harvard extends its admiration to a chivalrous rival...