Word: priding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plan." "In stead of applying the principle of self-education there has been too much drag ging of youth over the ground in perambulators and wondering why their running does not improve," An epigram Dr. Lowell borrows may be borrowed also by un friendly biographers as his epitaph: "We pride ourselves on being a practical people - which Disraeli somewhere described as men who practice the errors of their ancestors...
...ancestors-Indian scouts, Senators, wealthy planters. Civil War heroes. When neighbors complained, "You've really slung mud over us all," when a regent of the State D. A. R. jumped to the attack, the Robertson family called a reunion at nearby Chauga Creek, and with clan spirit outweighing pride in their distinguished ancestors, defended the book and outspoken Descendant...
TIME erred, had no intention of offending Akron's civic pride...
...Since the appointments of Dr. Walsh and Dr. Sweezy run for two years, there is ample time for me to reopen their casts if the committee's report warrants it." Yet now he offers not a word to refute the committee's conclusions. His only comment is to take pride in the fact that the report regard Walsh and Sweezy as "men of real ability whose services were highly valued in this university--facts which have never been questioned by the department, the dean, or me." May we remind Mr. Conant than in his news release on April...
...setting blazoned with swastikas, at Fallersleben in the heart of the German Reich, Führer Adolf Hitler fortnight ago surmounted the cornerstone of what he promised would eventually be the world's largest automobile factory. Perched there he spoke with the pride and feeling of an automobile salesman on the subject of Germany's new Strength-through-Joy (Kraft durch Freude) flivver. Within easy pointing distance were three slick models for the new 65-miles-per-hour, $396 Volkswagen, which Der Führer expects will one day be as much a part of every German...