Word: prouder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...upright citizens (I do not speak for the horizontal tavern-frequenters) are prouder of their 22 churches than of the six bars. And of the fact that we have been a center for oil activity during the past 15 years. And of the $1,500,000 high school now in process of construction. And of the new 110-bed hospital which is to be built with combined county and federal funds . . . And of our native sons among whose number are three major generals...
Writing recently in London's Sunday Express, British Columnist Beverly Baxter (member of Parliament from Southgate) addressed himself to a popular subject-that curious aspect of British sportsmanship which seems to make Britons "prouder of a stubborn defeat than of a glorious victory...
...modern turn to painting has set some 300,000 U.S. citizens to learning the pure and harmless pleasures of the brush and easel. Last week 228 of them were discovering the prouder joys of exhibition. The winners of a nationwide contest sponsored by Art News magazine, they had had their works hung in Manhattan's Riverside Museum for all the world to gawk and snicker...