Word: priding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Instead, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek has pocketed pride to strive for the betterment and consolidation of Central China, not immediately menaced by Japan. Some 300 miles south of Nanking at Nanchang in the fastness of Kiangsi Province he also established one of the greatest fighting air bases in the Far East. Last week this seat of Chinese air power-aviation being the sole arm in which China begins to have strength-was being transferred 1,400 miles west to Chengtu in almost totally inaccessible Szechwan Province. This move by Generalissimo Chiang resembles that of Soviet Dictator Stalin in establishing strategic...
...Lampoon can't claim to be the oldest publication at Harvard; but it is the oldest comic in America. It takes pride in being the forefather of Life, and in having retained during its half-century of existence a flavor and tradition of its own. The best way to get some idea of the Lampoon background is to visit the building on Mount Auburn Street. Walk in the side door and inspect the floor, the Dutch tiled walls, the pictures and drawings, the bound volumes of old copies of Punch, Life, and the Lampoon. Members of the board are glad...
Notoriously it has been necessary to staff the higher branches of the Red Army with former Tsarist officers who have been gradually retiring as younger Communist officers step into their boots. Announced Pravda last week with pride: "The commanding staff who participated in the recent Kiev maneuvers were about 6% workers and 30% collective farmers. . . . The commanders of the Red Army are assisted by the attentions of the Communist Party, the solicitude of the Soviet Government, and the fervent love of the Soviet people." Simultaneously the Government abandoned for the first time the Communist doctrine that Russia's army...
...Cochrane's success as a manager is hard to define, his popularity in Detroit is not. Twenty-five years ago, the city proudly adopted "Dynamic Detroit'' as a slogan. This ambitious expression of civic pride came to have a somewhat painful sound when the automobile business collapsed in 1932 and when the closing of every bank in town on St. Valentine's Day, 1933, precipitated a national panic. Mickey Cochrane's arrival in Detroit coincided roughly with the revival of the automobile industry and the first signs of revived prosperity. His determined, jolly New England...
...boom times Fortune Gallo had three companies on the road. He gave debuts to Queena Mario and Richard Bonelli. And this winter Soprano Charlotte Symons, another San Carlo product, will make her Metropolitan debut. Gallo's pride is that in 25 years his troupers have missed only one performance, when a train was derailed in Texas. Gallo's wire from Manhattan: "Is scenery hurt...