Word: proudest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME is 21 years old this month-for it was in March 1923 that our first issue was delivered to some 12,000 hopeful subscribers. And one of the things we are proudest of today is how many of that original 12,000 are TIME subscribers still, and can remember back with us-as perhaps you can yourself-to the news in that very first issue...
This pitted, tortured soil was Russia's proudest. At Ropsha Peter the Great built a magnificent palace. At Krasnoye Selo Alexander Suvorov, the 18th century hero, trained his men and shouted: "Battles are not won in offices." At Peterhof the Czars kept their priceless works of art. Now the palaces and treasures had been wrecked, looted. But Russian soil was back in Russian hands...
...proudest boasts cocky Maraudermen now toss around is this...
Sharing the humiliation of his Jewish subjects, he would wear the Badge of Shame among his proudest decorations. ... I nominate . . . Christian X of Denmark...
...decision to make. To stay in London was a terrible temptation-life was easier there, success greater. To live in Russia had been an even stronger temptation: "I felt I might have functioned there better than any place else in the world." But, a proud man Robeson is almost proudest of being a Negro; a responsible man, he feels most responsible toward his race. "I couldn't live with my own conscience, feeling I was getting the gravy." He stands with his people, but against segregation and abnegation alike. But he came back, too, because he found, like many...