Word: proudest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...students, Emily Griffith would perhaps have been proudest of a 26-year-old veteran, racing against approaching blindness. Opportunity had set up special training apparatus for him to study electricity, using bells instead of lights as signals. He planned to open his own electrical repair shop in Pueblo, when the night closed...
...years in Memphis have yielded him not only power, but wealth-cotton land in Mississippi, a fine brick house, part ownership in an exclusive hunting club, major holdings in the Coca-Cola Bottling Co. of N.Y. But no man has ever disputed the old man's proudest brag: that he has never made a nickel through common political graft...
...Philadelphia. A onetime (1922) "Strongest Man in the World," 240-lb. Spike bragged that his blood flowed in the veins of the best families (he gave some to the late President Calvin Coolidge's father, the ex-wife of Pennsylvania's ex-Governor George Earle), but was proudest that he had never sold a drop...
...proudest of seven newly acquired studies by the 19th-Century Frenchman Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, who believed that drawing is seven-eighths of art. His penciled portraits had all the icy perfection, but not the controlled fire of the Renaissance greats. Said Classicist Ingres: "Let us not admire Rembrandt and the others through thick and thin; let us not compare them. . . to the divine Raphael and the Italian School; that would be blaspheming...
...drawing of this "machine" was included in a show of Moholy's paintings and sculptures which opened in the Cincinnati Art Museum this week. Visitors smiled dutifully, but found the machine no more amusing and no less confusing than the rest of the show. Among Moholy's proudest creations are his "space modulators"-abstract, painted sculptures of transparent plastic. They are unsigned, titled by numbers and letters only, "as if they were cars, airplanes or other industrial objects." Explains Moholy: "My desire was to go beyond vanity into the realm of objective validity, serving the public...