Word: boast
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Guns cracked, the green-and-yellow flag of Brazil fluttered in the warm November breeze, the burghers of Rio de Janeiro lifted many a frosty glass to the traditional boast-toast: "God is a Brazilian...
...Mack "Retailer," snoutless, shaped like a loaf of bread, 1½-ton pay load, for door-to-door work. The Mack line has 24 standard models at prices from $675 for 1-ton chassis to some $18,000 for 60-ton; others to order. Mack's boast: 72.9% of Mack trucks sold since 1929 are still in service...
...mention of the half-empty houses: both legitimate theatres in Milwaukee are huge 1,600-seat houses, and with very few exceptions, no attraction that plays Milwaukee can boast of even half-empty houses. A half-capacity audience in Milwaukee is a distinct compliment to a play...
...Champaign, Ill., on the same field where famed Red Grange scored five touchdowns against Michigan 15 years ago, an Illinois team, smarting under Michigan's Coach Crisler's recent boast that Tom Harmon is a greater back than Grange, made Crisler eat crow. Playing inspired football, Bob Zuppke's Illini, who had not won a game this season, bottled Harmon so tightly that he scored only one touchdown, toppled mighty Michigan from the undefeated ranks...
Although both the Yale and Princeton cross country teams have been beaten this year, the Nassau runners lost only to a powerhouse N.Y.U. outfit and boast two dangerous men in Dave Little and Ed Burrows, who set a new Princeton 880 mark as a Freshman last year...