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Word: proudly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were burned for witchcraft far less amazing. . . ." Cannot your magazine help to put the quietus on this old lie, which crops up periodically? No witches were ever burned in New England: a number were hanged and one was pressed to death-a record of which we are not proud, but at least we are not guilty of the more cruel accusation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 20, 1939 | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...greater wars; when each proud fighter brags...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 20, 1939 | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...Helping Mr. Churchill's very proud but none too agile Royal Navy last week were two of the three escapist destroyers of the Polish Navy. They joined in a North Sea gunning match with several Nazi airplanes. In the skirmish, nobody got hurt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Lord's Admissions | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...Proud was old J. P. Morgan, and prouder was his head gardener, James S. Kelly, when, at the swanky Nassau County (N. Y.) Horticultural Society fall show, 22 of the 25 Morgan entries won prizes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 20, 1939 | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...much better than that--in fact, we'd rank her right under Mildred Bailey, but we would be accused of prejudice. Point remains that here is the band that anyone of any taste can listen to and like, and that is something that Jimmy can not only be proud of, but from which he is going to make a lot of money...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 11/17/1939 | See Source »

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