Word: priding
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...consisted of all U. S. land outside the 13 original States and Texas. Free land was the great natural resource upon which the new country was built. For generations it served as a prime political issue. In 1836 Henry Clay, then a U. S. Senator from Kentucky, pointed with pride to "the prodigious sum of one billion and eighty million acres" of public domain (about one-half the present size of the U. S.). Prophetically he exclaimed: "Long after we shall cease to be agitated by the Tariff, the public lands will remain a subject of deep and enduring interest...
Flushed with praise and the knowledge that he had just been appointed Acting Prime Minister in the absence of James Ramsay MacDonald at Geneva (see The League), forthright Chancellor Snowden voiced his pride frankly to correspondents: "We succeeded in all the essential points of our claims. . . . The influence of Great Britain in international affairs has been reestablished. . . . The arrangement for withdrawal of foreign troops from the Rhine is the greatest political achievement since Locarno...
From an exterior viewpoint, "Jim" Good represents an element in the administration satisfying to a large portion of the public. The West, of course, is pre-eminently satisfied by claiming the President. Among the ranking Cabinet members, the East can look with pride upon the Messrs. Stimson and Mellon at the No. 1 and No. 2 positions. At No. 3 comes Mr. Good, of the Midwestern midwestern, more citified than Vice President Curtis, less tycoonesque than Secretary Lamont. While Yale men point with pride to Statesman Stimson, and Harvard men to Secretary Adams, Secretary Good is satisfying to that large...
...Breslau in April of 1865, alfresco play was difficult. Deformed son of a deformed father, gnomelike little Karl was smaller than most, also weak-legged, humpbacked, bigheaded, crablike. In kindergarten, learning became his play. From 7 to 17, shielded from religious influence, he developed into his Gymnasium's pride. Studying fundamentals of engineering at the University of Breslau, he kept his professors whole lecture hours arguing with...
Which one of the following would you be willing to sacrifice for the sake of being successful: happiness, comfort, reputation, pride, honor, health, money, love...