Word: boast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington, the new edition of the TV Factbook reported the worldwide progress of television. Items: 1) there are now 137 TV stations in 35 foreign countries compared with 439 in the U.S.; 2) foreign countries boast 6,600,000 TV sets, compared with 34 million...
...noted architect; another became secretary of the Law Society of Massachusetts; and two more-Charles Silin, of Tulane University, and Samuel Levine, a top heart specialist (TIME, Dec. 6)-are professors. Said Director John Munro of the Harvard Financial Aid Office: "No foundation or scholarship that I know can boast a better performance than that...
...little (pop. 12,600) Italian town of Borgo San Sepolcro, lying in the fertile valley of the upper Tiber, has a proud boast: one of its townsmen was the great Renaissance painter and mathematician, Piero della Francesca (circa 1418-92). Legend has it that Piero was a fatherless boy who took the name of his mother Francesca. He studied at Florence, returned to Borgo San Sepolcro to get his first major commission, traveled through Italy painting in Rimini, Ferrara, Rome, Arezzo and Urbino, then settled down to spend his last 14 years in his native town compiling two mathematical treatises...
...Knights run true to form, the Observer will probably grow bigger and richer. The Knight papers boast the fastest growing circulation in their areas, with advertising to match. Since the Knight brothers took over the Akron Beacon Journal from their father, its circulation has grown more than 135%, to 152,381. The Chicago Daily News has jumped almost 35%, to 576,350 since they bought it, while the Detroit Free Press has grown 40%, to 456,261 daily, jumped 48,000 last year alone; the Miami Herald has upped its circulation more than 325%, to 204,774 daily...
...last week Scots were perky. For Scotland is enjoying a prosperity so bounteous that the canny Scots regard it almost with suspicion. Dollarwise, Scots boast that Scotland, with a population (5,000,000) smaller than London's, has been practically supporting England since the war. If Scotland were not tied to the English economy, they suggest, it could have been reveling in dollar prosperity all during the postwar years of austerity...