Word: proudest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wingolf was highly authoritarian in structure; absolute rulers of each chapter were three chargés, and when Tillich became the First Chargé of Wingolf at the University of Halle, he says, "it was, and is, the proudest achievement of my life." But despite authoritarianism, discussion was absolutely free, and it was there ("in the dinner and drinking sessions") that Tillich began to hammer out the problems that later were to become his life work...
...indispensable companion that serves without favor or prejudice. It has reached into every civilized corner of the world-and often brought civilization with it. From its wires spring the words of history in the making, the chatter of daily life. English Novelist Arnold Bennett called it "the proudest and the most poetical achievement of the American people...
...himself was away at his summer home at Vallambrosa, where he was to be met later, but his spirit reigned nonetheless. Closest to his own heart is his proudest achievement, indeed the only one in which he is willing to acknowledge true pride, his remarkable and extensive library. He is reflected especially in the substance and fruit of his learning, his extraordinary collection of Italian painting ranging from Giotto to Bellini...
...trapped aboard a train, how he eluded the phony appointments set up to trap him. With a certain masculine embarrassment, he reluctantly confirms French reports that he has on occasion disguised himself as a veiled Moslem woman, explains defensively: "I would do anything for the revolution." His proudest boast is of the manner in which he foiled a daring scheme originated by Jacques Soustelle, then Governor General of Algeria...
...Wilson. "Probably the most charming extravert in the Western world," marveled a rival editor. Ebullient, egocentric, suave and unflaggingly dynamic, Herbert Bayard Swope stood splendidly apart in an era of splendid individualists. As reporter, foreign correspondent and executive editor on the famed New York World-Joseph Pulitzer's proudest monument-Swope gave a glamorous flair to the incisive, personalized brand of U.S. journalism that flourished before World War I and stretched into...