Word: proudest
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Great Expectations. Most envious among the visitors to Constantinople were the Moslems, who for eight centuries drew a net of conquest closer & closer about the capital. When Mohamed II finally succeeded in crashing Constantinople's triple walls (in 1453), the townspeople hopefully streamed for their proudest monument, the Church of Saint Sophia, assured by a prophet that the Moslems would never conquer it. "In the space of an hour," wrote Historian Edward Gibbon, "the sanctuary, the choir, the nave, the upper and lower galleries, were filled with the multitudes of fathers and husbands, of women and children, of priests...
Genaro had become an important man in Mexico. Lots of history had been made over his head, and it is his proudest boast that he has never repeated a word he has heard in the presidential office. Teresa, daughter of an Army officer, was proud to marry him-and is prouder now of their nine children, six of them sons. Says Genaro with quiet assurance: "I have talked with our ambassadors who have seen the feet of many of the world's rulers. They tell me my work is the equal of anything in Europe or America, superior...
...colleagues consider him one of the nation's top physiqlogists. He is an expert on stomach ulcers (TIME, April 28, 1941), aviation medicine (TIME, Oct. 6, 1941), cancer (TIME, Dec. 16, 1946), analgesia (pain killers), gall-bladder and liver complaints, diseases of old age. His proudest achievement: discovery of a hormone which he thinks shows promise as a stomach-ulcer cure (the hormone: enterogastrone, extracted from hog intestines...
Although by no means a best seller, the proudest accomplishment of the publishing organization is the monumental four-volume edition of the William Makepeace Thackeray letters...
...then shows up broke for a fresh start. But if his new column brings him another competence, Dadswell insists it will have to come from little papers. He has promised never to raise his rates ($10 monthly for papers under 10,000 circ.). In his growing string he is proudest of the Cambridge (Md.) Banner, the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times and the Bradenton (Fla.) Herald, presumably because he thinks they are proud of him. Says Dadswell: "If the President of the United States walked into their offices and told them they could not run my column, they would tell...