Word: proudly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...talk of naval reduction turned attention to Britain's new First Lord of the Admiralty, Albert Victor Alexander, whose first task may be to scrap some of the proud ships he now commands. Labor Sea Lord Alexander is a former Baptist lay preacher, the son of a railway engineer. Like the admiral in Pinafore, he "polished up the handles so care-ful-lee, that now he is the ruler of the King's navee." Earnest, hard working, his appointment was greeted with disdainful sniffs in Tory circles which consider the post of First Lord of the Admiralty...
...Justly proud of its distribution system is the Fleischmann company. "The Yeast Must Go Through" is the watchword in every Fleischmann office. During the New England floods of November 1927, Fleischmann chartered all the airplanes at the Boston Airport, even newsmen and news services could get planes only through the Fleischmann Traffic Department. First arrivals from afar in the flooded districts were airmen carrying Fleischmann yeast. Nor is Fleischmann service limited only to yeast deliveries. When a Fleischmann baker died suddenly, leaving a distracted widow with several small children, one Fleischmann man took charge of the funeral, another Fleischmann...
...Business, by tradition strangers, have of recent years had their names linked by trade-boosters seeking to ennoble Business by a marriage above its esthetic station. Art's lovers, proud of their mistress and fearful lest she be debased as a handmaiden, have often denied the rumors of intimacy, assailed the Business motives...
...never been enough to make me proud...
This fact is strikingly shown by the increase from four degrees awarded to men summa cum laude last year to twenty this year. In the same way the number of Ph.D.s has increased showing a similar trend in the graduate schools. President Lowell can well be proud of the Harvard he has brought to what the ancient Greeks would have called a state of "happiness." Harvard also, can well be proud of the leader under whose vigorous, yet quiet direction, she has attained such pleasant heights...