Word: boast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...these days. Few families can still afford such expensive education-330 guineas a year ($970). But for British finishing schools, the postwar currency laws have worked wonders by all but stopping the annual export of debutantes to the once-popular Continental schools. Last week the Monkey Club could honestly boast that business is booming...
...Trinity squash match at Hemenway this afternoon should be little more than a practice session for Jack Barnaby's squad. The Crimson is heavily favorded to trounce the Trinitarians, who boast a mediocre record...
Birds and reptiles have always abounded in the Andaman Islands, a series of lush green mountaintops dotting the Bay of Bengal. But up to 25 years ago the mammal population of the Andamans was a poor minority. The only wild four-footed friends the island Pygmies could boast were a few small pigs, rats and native, skunklike creatures. In 1928 an Indian government expert visited the Andamans and decided that what the islands needed was a properly decorative quadruped. He introduced a pair (male & female) of dainty spotted chital deer. With no natural enemies to bother them, the chital deer...
Four decades ago, in an ad for a new car, Studebaker proudly boasted that it had achieved the ultimate in driving pleasure. The open, chariotlike Studebaker-Garford "Forty," it said, represented "the end of experiment." But Harold Vance, who has done plenty of experimenting in the intervening years, makes no such boast today. "Our new sports and family cars," says he, "represent the beginning of a whole new experiment in getting the fun back into driving...
Although Northeaster's record is not impressive, the Huskies boast great goalie in Ray Pieard who could cause the undefeated Crimson real trouble of he's "on". The game will begin...