Word: proudly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...benefits of competitive athletics--often attacked and even denied--have been preserved and democratized; while the feeling of good sportsmanship with other colleges has been carefully nourished and encouraged. During his long guardianship Dean Briggs has brought University athletics to a condition of which he may well feel proud, and for which the University owes no little gratitude...
...president who thought "I am the State." It now has one who believes "quieta non movere." It has a Titus Oates all its own. Some think it has been "conquering Japan on the oil-fields of California." Soon there will fly from the top of the Capital the proud boast of the country's state-men: "America expects every man to do (and say) his dirtiest...
...triumph over Harvard and sundry other victories over its Intercollegiate League rivals. he sent his second-string warriors after the Crimson scalp, but the supposed victim was in no mood to stand the red skins outrages, and with the battle half over the invaders called for help. The proud Hanover chieftan summoned his strongest front, but to no purpose. The second half was as much of a rout as the first...
Morris Gest, producer of The Miracle: "In a pamphlet, entitled An American Protestant Protest against the Defilement of True Art by Roman Catholicism, I was accused of being an emissary of the Pope, an 'alien Judas Iscariot tool for Jesuitical propaganda.' Said I: 'I am proud of being a Jew, but I resent bitterly being described as a Judas. The Miracle is a work of art and not a religious propaganda...
...Knut Ham-sun- Knopf ($2.50). Lieutenant Wil-latz Holmsen is the third one of that name to be lord of Segelfoss Manor. His grandfather had founded the estate and his father had maintained it. But Lieutenant Willatz Holmsen has none of the qualities to continue this work. He is proud, for one thing. If a tenant does not pay his rent, he will not ask for it. People might think he needed the money. If a demand is made upon him, he will accede to it rather than admit even to himself that he cannot afford it. Then...