Word: pridefully
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Bursting with pride in Chinese prowess, the press office of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek announced last week that 97 Japanese officers and 1,800 troops were slain in a stiff engagement in the province of Honan when Chinese forces stormed "Kaifeng, the first provincial capital recaptured since Japan began the war on July...
...stopped taking bets on Big Bim, horse players turned their attention to his dwarfed rivals: Arnold Hanger's Dit (winner of last week's Wood Memorial), William L. Brann's Pictor (who romped off with the Chesapeake Stakes fortnight ago), Charles S. Howard's Mioland (pride of the West Coast), Tony Pelleteri's Andy K. (Mr. Big's chief rival last year). They kept their fingers crossed, remembering well that Colonel Bradley's last winter-book favorite (Blue Larkspur in 1929) came in fourth...
Nine months ago Sweden felt she could look on the swelling pride of Germany and Russia with relative complacence. She was the geographical centre of a ring of seven well-disposed, small, but collectively considerable, Baltic and Scandinavian States: Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Denmark, Norway. One or another of them might be threatened, but it was hardly plausible that a nation ringed around with seven such neighbors would have to face the worst...
...Dillard Chorus sang Haydn's Creation; high-school actors gave plays; Dillard's Players' Guild put on Karel Capek's R. U. R.; Dillard's gallery exhibited prize Negro paintings and photographs. Dillard's president, small, earnest Dr. William Stuart Nelson, beamed with pride...
...drawing card to prospective Freshmen is the Harvard House System. Four pages are devoted in the "General Information" booklet to a description of the central position held by the Houses in the life of Harvard Students. Commanding the river in red-bricked respectability, they are at once the pride and despair of University Hall. For hundreds of undergraduates are each year denied admission to them. Most of these men eventually get into Houses, but for an unfortunate minority who ever win that privilege, Harvard is not doing her duty...