Word: priding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pride in Queipo
This summer, Christian W. Feigenspan, brewer of Newark's Pride of the Nation Beer, sponsored seven prizes for Eastern saltwater anglers. The first six were run-of-the-mine $250 and $100 prizes for largest fish caught between Montauk Point and Cape May. The seventh, which appeared to be a jest, was $100 for the smallest tuna under five pounds caught anywhere along the Atlantic Coast. Actually, the very serious object of the prize was to find a clue to the long-sought breeding places of tuna. All entries were to be sent to the Federal Trust...
Though the average Harvard student takes pride in his unalienable rights to do what he pleases, even to the cutting of classes, there is one group of appointments which he never breaks, those of Freshman Week...
...Pride of O. K. Yui was the city's $8,000,000 Civic Centre, a group of white marble buildings as imposing as anything in the International Settlement. Last week they were shelled to pieces by the guns of art-loving Admiral Yonai. Nearly half of Mayor Yui's great city was in flames and many thousands of his citizens were dead, but O. K. Yui has a chance of becoming a far greater hero than Mayor Wu ever...
...could lose $7,000,000 in the Gulf in seven years and still net $4,200,000; the diligent falderol and doubtful fun of a cruise to Havana; Maritime Labor; eight typical U. S. ports in paint, seven typical seamen in prose, twelve Margaret Bourke-White photographs of that pride of the U. S. seas, the old S. S. Leviathan, lying rust-bleared and indecent at a Hoboken dock...