Word: priding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vast body of Western graduates, and to the even greater body of Big Ten associates the presence of the University Band in its traditional role will satisfy a definite need. It is not so much the individual pride in a swinging mass of musicians as merely a deep seated satisfaction at seeing Harvard in full regalia, the instinctive desire for the war paint and tom-tom of inter-collegiate and in this case intersectional conflict. Goodwill is distinctly of practical value and in this action the Student Council has made a strong investment...
...lives in the elaborate red house on East Avenue, Rochester, N. Y., who sometimes strolls on its multi-shrubbed and flowered grounds, is Edward R. Rosenberg. Mr. Rosenberg takes much pride in his house. He also takes pride in his daughter Suzanne who last year made a triumphant debut into Rochester society, and in his son, Edward Jr. who is learning his father's business. Mr. Rosenberg is president of Fashion Park Associates, Inc. Because of Rochestrian George Eastman many U. S. citizens when they think of Rochester think of Eastman kodaks, Eastman music. But fully-informed...
...spiritual force. The first donors, backing an un- formulated project, the many early helpers among business men, led by Major Higginson, who in those initial years gave unflaggingly of time and counsel, would, we may imagine, look with amazement upon this splendid scene. But they would also look with pride, and their pride would be justified, for they, too, share in this great achievement. A great seat of learning gave her best endeavors to meet the need for the trained men they craved for business; it gave its full recognition to the profession they held in honor; here...
Soviet Russia is one of the countries which glow translucently on an electrically-lighted earth globe in the office of a man in Cleveland. The man is not vain, but last week he looked with kindling pride at a point on the globe 270 miles east of Moscow, near Nishni Novgorod and between the Oka and Volga rivers. On that point he has pledged himself to build in the short space of 15 months a wholly new city for 25,000 Russians. The Soviet Government has agreed to pay him for his work $50,000,000-in dollars, in Cleveland...
...duties of the office of President of Nicaragua require me to write for publication some statements that are a little severe. ... It seems to me that a crime was committed against this country when ... a nation friendly to Nicaragua was offended in the greatest pride that it can have, the honor of its army and of its marines. I refer to the United States of America...