Word: priding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Patron's Pride...
...pumped out against an 800-ft. head through a shaft that was flooded repeatedly while the work was under contract. . . . Repeated relocation of portions of the tunnel were necessary." When the engineers finally holed through San Jacinto tunnel, they were calling it, with commingled irritation and pride, "Old San Jack...
...writer, not a playboy, Communist, world-saver, dilettante, or U. S. prophet. Writing is my work. I take pride in this work, and when it is good I am as pleased to say so as TIME, for instance, is pleased in its advertisements to say it is the best magazine of its kind in America...
When he talks about his family, Mr. Charles gets pink-and the flush is not always of pride. His father Andrew and Uncle George married two sisters, Martha and Emily Clark. Andrew and George had differences. And their doubly-related descendants have honored the family tradition. Not long after William succeeded his late cousin Howard (son of George) as president, a family faction had him sidetracked to the chairmanship on the grounds that he was getting old. Then one faction urged modernizing the store; another wanted the status quo. In 1935 a 45-year-old, high-pressure executive named Victor...
Wrecking Trains. Pride of the guerrillas are two train wreckers, both dignified Chinese scholars, who in pre-war days occupied professorial chairs in the chemistry and physics departments of Peiping universities. They explained their technique to the correspondent. "It's like a game of chess. Our opponent is the Japanese army engineer. He tries to checkmate every move we make in wrecking his trains, but thus far we have kept one jump ahead." The erstwhile professors admitted they had copied Lawrence's method of train wrecking-setting off an explosive charge under the rails as a train passed...