Word: proudest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proudest village in Mexico last week was tiny Soledad Etla (pop. 1,200) in Oaxaca State. President Manuel Avila Camacho had just given it a handsome new flag. In one year every one of Soledad Etla's 470 illiterates had learned to read & write...
...Cummington Story, OWI Overseas' proudest production, about European refugees and New England villagers...
...Corps dove into its statistical records last week, came up with the announcement that nearly 90% of its 589,852 officers and men had served overseas in World War II. Marine officers, who had long sung "We are proud to claim the title of United States Marine," could be proudest of all: 98.3% of them had seen active duty overseas...
...Russian, U.S. and British Quartermaster Corps had worked hard to make the conferees comfortable. U.S. quartermasters were proudest of all of the liquor they had ready for the President to offer his guests: Scotch, gin, bourbon, wines, cognac, even curaçao and crème de menthe...
...Proudest of the Army Surgeon General's exhibits is the spinal ward, Ward 108, at Newton D. Baker General Hospital in Martinsburg, W.Va. Of 69 men there, 43 are "walking patients" (they proudly sign themselves W.P.). Most walk with the aid of braces, crutches or canes, but 14 of them, whose spinal cords are only partly severed, walk with no help...