Word: priding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pride of South African scientists is their possession of fair proof that man originated in Africa, not in Asia as Manhattan's Henry Fairfield Osborn believes and as Manhattan's Roy Chapman Andrews has sought to prove by expeditions...
...backed. Many are the winners that Goldman Sachs has sponsored. It brought out a Lambert Pharmacal issue at 41¾, Woolworth at 55, May Dept. Stores at 50, Continental Can at 52½, S. H. Kress at 60, Sears Roebuck at 50, United Biscuit at 28. Special pride is taken in National Dairy Products, issued three years ago at 33. The stock has paid a 33⅓-stock dividend, followed by a 100% stock dividend, is now selling at 78. One of the original $33 shares has become worth $624. Brilliant also has been the record of Goldman Sachs Trading...
Pointing with pride to the past, the Cotton Textile Institute did not forget the future...
...would be letting myself in for so much unfortunate publicity. No sooner did I reach New York than someone showed me a clipping from the New York World saying that I "mourned for America" (which is just the opposite of my true feelings-I have the most tremendous pride and hopefulness for America) and that I was jailed in Boston. A little while later I received an angry letter from my aunt, la Comtesse de Gabriac, saying that the Paris Herald had also reported me to be a jailbird. Simultaneously came various letters from California kidding me unmercifully about...
Author Glasgow, pride of the South, is a good stylist, competent, prolific, weakly satiric, with a high artistic reputation and more than a trace of sentiment...