Word: boast
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...boast is legitimate, as no other paper on Thursday, Oct. 16, more than approached The Times in solidity. The Chicago Daily News, however, with 48 pages was large enough to be a considerable burden to a newsboy; The Chicago Tribune had 36 with which to swell a business man's pocket; The New York World and The New York Herald-Tribune each provided 32 for the littering of breakfast tables, Pullmans or wherenot. Other papers whose bulk did not forbid their being folded by an active man in any conveniently clear space were The Kansas City Star with...
Boston sustains a genuine loss. It can no longer boast of a public intelligent enough to oil the financial machinery of an enterprise which immeasurably enriched its dramatic life. The plays of problem and wit which passed behind the footlights of the Copley created an illusion that today, as a hundred years ago, Boston was close to the pulse of cosmopolitan life...
...American gesture. Things were done in a big way--ships stationed every hundred miles on the ocean, spare engine parts sent all over the world, and when the fliers got back home, landing fields banked with flowers, and covered with huge, gasping crowds. It was a triumphant national boast, flung in the face of the world; and like every really good boast, it contained a certain element of futility...
...better training" must in the end sustain a very heavy burden of proof; they select the best students, they say, but they retain the same teachers, and one fancies the instruction will remain much as before. I know colleges which have carried the "limiting" fever into the classes, and boast that they have improved the quality of their teaching because this or that course, which used to be open to anyone who elected it, is new strictly limited to twenty or fifteen. Well, it depends. If the teacher is not a good one, it is better to limit the number...
...inlet where the tide rushes in and out from the North Sea at great velocity and where the sixth longest bridge in the world supplies "see-ers" with a "sight." Britain's battle fleet uses it as a base. Scotsmen, particularly Edinburghers who dwell near its troubled expanse, boast of its majesty and dangers. But few think of swimming across it; and none of those who have tried have ever succeeded-until last week. Then W. E. Barnie, an Edinburgh science teacher, girded up his loins, plunged in at Burntisland, on the North side, struggled for 4 hours...