Word: priding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thrice, he has competed in 200 meets, placed 190 times, won no times, broken 50 records. His older brother, Sigmund, won the U. S. championship while on a visit last year and placed fifth last week. The Brothers Ruud are-next to Sonja Henie-Norway's greatest athletic pride. Born in a little silver-mining town of Kongsberg near Oslo, which has produced more topflight ski jumpers than any other spot in the world, little Birger Ruud won his first championship when he was seven years old. Since ski jumping is a matter of confidence and body control, Birger...
...National Affairs" (1925); "Aeronautics" part of a new department, "Transport" (1934). So many people objected to having words put into their mouths (although the facts reported were true) that "Imaginary Interviews" was eliminated in 1924; two years later "People" replaced it. Two departments in the first issue, "Point with Pride" and "View with Alarm," were the nearest TIME ever came to having an editorial page. Inconsistent with a disinterested editorial policy, both were abandoned...
...alright, boys!" he bellows at his men, motioning them to stand back. Then the truck strains again at the cable and the fat pillar is abruptly flipped on its side. Lusty cheers from the boys. Radiant pride on John's earthly face. "Okay, now we git do wall," he grits...
...other was from relatives who 22 years ago scorned him as unworthy of chivalry by having his banner, surcoat, helmet and sword removed from the chapel of the Order of the Garter at Windsor. The text of this message was not revealed but its signature was announced with pride: "Bertie, May, and Elizabeth" (i. e., George VI, Queen Mother Mary, and Queen Elizabeth...
...cross at baptism, the wearing of surplices, kneeling at communion. In return the Nonconformists would be expected to forget their oldtime objections to bishops. Said a pamphlet released with the plan: "To many Free Churchmen the word 'bishop' still denotes 'the prelate's pride of place and autocratic methods . . . but the evils of nonresidence and the habits of the grandee are things of the past...