Word: proudly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Governor Bilbo well knew that of all the states, only two?neighboring Louisiana and proud South Carolina?surpass Mississippi in illiteracy...
...brief, the new idea of which Harvard is so proud, is to allow students to attend classes in which they are not registered. The only objection we can think of is from the Treasurer's office, but it is reasonable to assume that if a student takes the trouble to attend a course for which he does not pay, he will emerge sooner or later with enough knowledge to make up for the financial loss. There is, as some may hint, the difficulty that there are no courses here which a student would voluntarily attend. But that...
...became again what the Spanish conquerors called her, La Llave del Nuevo Mundo "The Key of the New World." Down narrow streets, through which once swaggered the conquistadors, modern statesmen strolled with ingratiating mien, at that same Palace in La Habana from which lorded "Captains General" in the proud name of Spain, there stopped last week, briefly and peaceably, Calvin Coolidge, El Presidente De Los Estados Unidos. The Pan-American Conference (TIME...
...proud young Amir of Afghanistan is the despot of a mountain realm rising like a sword between British India and Asiatic Russia. He divides one from the other, defies both. Last week the Amir Amanullah (literally "The Sovereign Lord 'Peace of God' ") set foot upon European soil at Naples, sped by specal train to Rome, began an extensive tour of the Occident...
...once heard, between twirls of a lariat, from the stage of the Ziegfeld Follies; they have since been telegraphed to the New York Times from many odd corners of the globe; they have been accepted with positive pleasure in capitals of Europe. All this has not, obviously, made him proud. Recently, between the moments when a motion picture camera was clicking at his pleasant homely face, a stenographer trailed Funnyman Rogers around the Hollywood studios of the First National Picture Co., jotting down unostentatiously, the words which fell from his lips. These words, many of them, are now the subtitles...