Word: proudly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brunswick-Lüneburg, who, however, still claimed and was generally known by the British title of Duke of Cumberland. This man, a great-grandson of George III of Britain, second cousin once removed of King George V and second cousin of Queen Mary, is the gentleman who was proud to hold a British title but " too proud " to fight for it. Thus by depriving him of his title did the head of the House of Windsor (formerly the House of Saxe-Coburg und Gotha) completely repudiate its German connections...
...famine and pestilence brought proud Austria low. But even at the nadir of her depression there were not lacking signs of a spiritual renaissance. In the whole cultural life of Vienna today, once the embodiment of Straussian color and gaiety, there is no more hopeful item than the school of Dr. Cizek, an exhibition which (now on view in Manhattan) will later tour the U. S. It has already been shown in England...
...splendid team--worthy to rank among the great elevens of any university of all time--Harvard is only too anxious to do honor. Alert and powerful, Yale earned on Saturday the victory she deserved and which the most trying conditions imaginable could not mar. Harvard is proud of her record of victories over Yale, but she can never forget how to lose nor how to honor the team which broke her record of success...
...unneccessary, perhaps, to say that the University is proud of its team even in defeat--unneccessary because every Harvard man knows it and feels it. But for that very reason it requires the saying. Every man on the eleven was determined to accept nothing but victory when he went on the field on Saturday. Every man gave his utmost. It is no fault of his that that was not enough...
...When the Portuguese came to the islands, the Guanches began to fall off in numbers, until now the race is practically extinct, but even today traces of the Guanche blood may be seen in the modern inhabitants. An islander who has Guanche blood in his veins is always proud of this fact and boasts...