Word: boast
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...more different. Cricket is to him--and has been almost since Magna Carta--the one sport truly beyond comparison. Some men like soccer, and some prefer rugby, while Scotsmen may say field hockey is better than either. But none will disagree about cricket. Its lack of action is its boast, not its shame. Its long matches, which last anywhere from one afternoon to four full days are as joyfully undertaken as the vigils of fishermen. In fact cricket has much the same appeal . . . you have long periods of time when you do nothing, but then for a moment you must...
Local Taft adherents boast 204 members. Club president Willard P. Dwelley, Jr. '53 said that Bruce C. Hopper, associate professor of Government, and alumnus Paul C. Whitney '20 would advise the club...
...change, the production can boast of an adequate orchestra. Usually the instrumentalists in a House opera are poorly rehearsed and technically inferior, but the Semele orchestra under Malcolm Holmes' direction, rivaled the chorus in clarity and beautiful tone...
Mill on the Po can also boast the intelligent, graceful performances of Carla del Poggio and Jacques Sernas who play the couple. They are the victims of the class war. Sernas, an intelligent youth, wants to accept the new conditions and learn to manipulate the new machines, but cannot do so without opposing his family and friends who cling stubbornly to tradition. In his failure to arrange a compromise we see the meaning of the film--the defeat of both sides...
...when it rains on a man in large drops," he wrote, "is worse than one of our northeast storms; but the labors of agriculture and amusement of letters will shelter me." Adams gradually slacked off on farm chores, but nothing ever slaked his thirst for letters. He lived to boast of reading 43 books in his 82nd year, and it was in his study, at the hoary age of 90, that he died...