Word: proudly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ashamed, but proud of the school which I attend and therefore have written its name in bold letters. I suppose that this is but one of hundreds of letters that you are receiving from the students of Andover, Mercersburg, Pomfret, Choate, Groton, Lawrenceville, Exeter, Hill, St. Paul's, Taft and Hotchkiss in reference to "Denny's" letter, printed under EDUCATION in TIME, Sept...
...Then for dinner, he was rushed to a banquet given in honor of the two flyers. Called upon for a speech, Mr. Schlee rose, said: "There seems to be a general misconception . . ." and collapsed. Friends attributed the breakdown to nervous strain. Said full-page newspaper advertisements:-"Detroit is proud of the Pride of Detroit and its Intrepid Pilots-Ed Schlee and Billy Brock...
...line of Harvard men, who for the last six years of his life was professor of medicine at the Harvard Medical School; but in the minds of the hundreds who are mourning his death, he was far more than a Harvard man. Harvard can only be proud to take its place among the mourners, glad that such a man was a son of the University...
Such a man Harvard mourns, proud to have been the background of at least a part of his career. For Dr. Peabody's work was well done; and his influence, great and widespread, will keep his name alive for many years...
...Paris, in 1792, 45 years old, John Paul Jones died. Like many another proud man, wit or adventurer, he read Voltaire, not the Bible, on the night he died. Catherine the Great supplied an epitah: " 'This Paul Jones was a very bad character and well worthy of being praised by a rabble of detestable characters...