Word: priding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...competition between U. S. muralists for the walls of Washington's huge departmental buildings. For artists on relief, WPA's astute Art Director Holger Cahill nas found some 500 mural jobs employing more than 1,000 painters. Both Federal agencies are haopy about the results, but the pride of me Treasury is in mural painting alone and in such newly-discovered talents as Frank Mechau, of Colorado, whose Dangers of the Mail was chosen last year for the new Post Office Department building (TIME, March 2, 1936). Current discovery of Treasury art officials is not a young...
Humble for this ignorance, dentists pointed with pride to a new method of spotting the first speck of decay. Offered by Dr. James M. Prime of Omaha, this procedure is to paint the teeth with ammoniacal silver nitrate which gives "instant warning" by darkening rotting enamel...
...Fitz-Gibbon breaks them of those habits by putting thimbles in their nostrils, guide wires in their mouths. Girls with cleft palates are harder to treat than boys, said he, "because girls are ordinarily protected from the rude mockery of other children. Consequently they are apt to take pride in their funny way of talking...
...great was the Cabinet's anxiety that it decided Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden must swallow his Yorkshire pride, ask Italian Ambassador Count Dino Grandi to transmit a "personal appeal" to Premier Mussolini to keep the Bari station quiet about partition of Palestine. Since elegant Mr. Eden two years ago had an encounter with the Dictator at which they exchanged high words and parted on terms of mutual contempt (TIME, July 8, 1935), the Personal sacrifice asked of the young British Foreign Secretary last week was great. Count Grandi few days later brought the British Cabinet an especially courteous cable...
...nation on earth permits seven million-nearly a third-of its school children to be taught by a quarter million teachers who receive less than $750 a year, and 30,000 poverty-stricken teachers who receive less than $450 a year, there is need for an awakening of civic pride in the discharge of obligations to children...