Word: boast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...High, Ocean Deep. Californians boast about their eight-campused university in the same extravagant, affectionate way that they talk about their climate and their oranges. Their enthusiasm is adjectival: the university is big, varied, young, impatient, aggressive, progressive. Especially big. Its interests run as deep as the ocean and as high as the sky. At Scripps Institution in La Jolla (pronounced La Hoya), Cal oceanographers study the depths of the Pacific, and at Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton, Cal astronomers scan the stars. The university operates the atom-bomb city of Los Alamos, N.Mex. It owns ranches, waterworks, apartment buildings...
Last year's top marksman, Lou Gerstley '45, reports that when, in the midst of firing, a steam valve from the pumping equipment located nearby blows, the result of the aim is often pretty bad. More fortunate M.I.T. can boast of a modern indoor firing range, complete with soundproofing and overhead target carriers...
Most Clevelanders have never heard of Clevelander Harry William Hosford. Many a Cleveland financial man who can boast about knowing the big boys has never seen him. A few knew him as the country's biggest individual speculator in Government securities. In the winter of 1942-43 alone he bought upwards of $28 million worth of Government bonds...
Prime Minister Attlee had cut through India Office red tape and personally conducted most of the crucial discussions which finally led to a settlement with Indian leaders. With little enough to boast about at home, Attlee might get a salute from history for his handling of the Indian problem. Viscount Mountbatten's tact and informality had brought agreement where none seemed possible...
Fantasy in the Open. In his introduction, Forster remarks: "Fantasy now tends to retreat, or to dig herself in, or to become apocalyptic out of deference to the atom. She can be caught in the open in this book, by those who care to catch her." Forster's boast is pretty well borne out by these twelve stories...