Word: pride
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...former elections men have neglected to vote through indifference or because they had no notice. This time every Junior has been personally notified, and the class should take pride in making the election a thoroughly representative...
...time, place or nationality. The bond is universal and eternal. Men eminent by your achievements in literature, in history, in law and in science, bring us greetings from the older world of learning, and from our neighbors North and South, which we shall ever remember with pleasure and with pride...
...starting, the first thing that the admiral did was to form the squadron into a line in Indian file. He insisted that the ships should keep just four hundred yards apart. They straggled for a few days, when the admiral began to send disagreeable messages which touched the officers' pride, until they all decided to do what he wished. As soon as he found that they had learned to keep their distance he began to put them through every imaginable evolution until they were able to perform with perfect accuracy...
...correspondent of the Underwriters' Laboratories in Chicago from 1895 to 1900. For the following three years he was editor and publisher of "The Socialist Spirit," after which he became Washington correspondent for the Socialist press, a position which he held until 1905. Mr. Wentworth is the author of "The Pride of Intellect...
...conceive of no greater service that can be rendered by the Intercollegiate Civic League than to spread among its membership the idea that no intelligence is negotiable in matters politic but intelligence as to government ends and community needs. When college men once have this feeling, their pride as citizens and as men of general intelligence will lead them to ask questions and to head movements necessary to secure efficiency in the government of American cities...