Word: priding
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...wrote many orchestral works and songs. Chronologically it comes between the popular Snow Maiden and Coq d'Or (best-known excerpt: "The Hymn to the Sun"). For many, Rimsky reached in Sadko the height of his musical powers. He himself thought well of it, often pointed with pride to his original use of the bylina, a recitative style borrowed from Russian epics...
...dirigible R-100 if she crosses the Atlantic next May as planned. A hydrogen manufacturing plant stood nearly completed last week. New roads were being built from the airport to the city. Montreal hopes to get the U. S. national air races for 1931. The place's great pride is not its wireless and lights, but its hard-surface runways, its comfortable hangars...
...peasant's son from Bavaria. One was a Prussiafi volunteer, who always made it a point of pride to stand the painful treatments a little longer than any of his comrades; he was also invincible at chess. One was a boy from Westphalia; the fourth was an English prisoner. Once they were joined by a fifth, Fürlein, who had no wound but had lost his voice and could hardly breathe. Suspicious of him at first, the Whistlers soon made him one of them, and were overjoyed when the time came for his operation and the insertion...
...boastful only on one subject, or rather a dual one. his Cuernavaca home and 'Pancho.' He becomes completely enwrapped in the subject of his garden in Cuernavaca as he leads the visitor about the old walls that have been rebuilt by Pancho; as he shows with genuine pride this or that plant that be himself has tended; and the swimming pool...