Word: boast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Managing the Team. In another, subtler way Clifford also made his influence felt. The President likes to boast that he has the best Cabinet since Rutherford B. Hayes.* At least two members of his Cabinet-George Marshall and James Forrestal-are men of unusual ability and integrity. Certainly Mr. Truman's Cabinet works together without any audible bickering. The President thinks of them as a "great team." But a team is no good without a good manager. The nine Cabinet members work in as many different fields; there are bound to be serious differences of opinion. When the Truman...
Later, at 7:15 o'clock, the Freshmen will meet their New Haven rivals with the same squad that first tied and then bowed to a strong B.U. outfit this week. The Bulldogs boast a strong defense, but little is known about the remainder of the team...
...Harvard," says the World Almanac, "has the largest university library in the world." The 325 commuters who daily make Dudley Hall their center of collegiate operations can only snicker. The Center does boast a room, hypocritically called a library, which houses in its one bookcase a dozen or so catalogues of various graduate schools. But no books, just a dictionary...
...Prudential Insurance Co., whose advertisements boast that it "has the strength of Gibraltar," received a 1½-ton chunk of The Rock itself, to be set in the corner stone of its new West Coast offices...
...squad this season has even come close to downing the Yalies, who boast shutouts in five of their eight battles. To make matters on paper even worse, the same Army team that handed the Crimson its only setback of the campaign, bowed to the Bulldogs...