Word: priding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Most mothers overflow with pride when their infant sons begin to toddle across the room from chair to chair at the tender age of ten months. Last week in Chicago, little Harmon Loeb, aged five weeks, walked unaided across a room. Dr. Carl Loeb sees in his son's feat no miracle, says.: "We bathe Harmon every day for ten or fifteen minutes in ultraviolet rays [which] help the blood absorb the calcium in food, thereby building bone. The baby is given a series of exercises three times a day designed to strengthen the muscles . . . sleeps on a bread...
Physicians and surgeons huffed and puffed last week when they heard that the will of the late Walter Lippincott of Philadelphia, son of famed Publisher J. B. Lippincott, assigned $25,000 to the Veterinary School of the University of Pennsylvania. Laymen, unembarrassed by that professional pride which obliges medicos to look down upon "horse-doctors," morticians and the like, were less scornful. The annual report of Dr. John R. Mohler of the U. S. Bureau of Animal Industry was also published last week and it showed that the well-paid veterinarian profession is not only uncrowded but actually undermanned...
...Worcestershire estate the Premier has developed a special breed of hog in which he takes pride...
...Will Durant's Story of Philosophy might now guess, was Baruch de Espinosa-Spinoza, for short. "With the judgment of the angels and the sentence of the saints" he was anathematized, execrated, cursed, cast out and cut off by the exiled people of Israel. His studies, once the pride of the synagogue, had led him to a mechanistic philosophy of life. He was not the first original thinker Jewry had disowned. Spinoza secluded himself and set up as an optometrist, a grinder of fine lenses. At his leisure he smoked a pipe of tobacco. His sport was spider-fighting...
...cogitations and conferences came, by easy mental association, the name of René Robert Cavelier Sieur de LaSalle. The Cadillac, General Motors' pride, had been named for Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, who in the 18th Century established Detroit. He was King Louis XIV's Governor of Louisiana Territory, but the man who had explored and named that territory a few years before was the intrepid, swashbuckling Sieur de LaSalle. In his name were connotations of reverence, dash, finesse. Therefore the new General Motors car is called the LaSalle...