Word: boast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bank one of the pillars of our world. Billy Phelps taught generations of Yale-men that the test of a great play was whether or not it sent tingles up your spine. One name which does that to me is that great American hero, Douglas Mac-Arthur. We proudly boast that TIME was the first publication to call international attention to a name now honored throughout the world, Adlai Stevenson. If he can give us the tax system which we can live with, he will be the greatest Secretary of the Treasury since Alexander Hamilton: Douglas Dillon. There are perhaps...
Since then, its original three sponsors have increased to ten, and the station claims a peak audience of about 165,000 viewers (Manhattan's lone educational channel can boast only some 65,000 viewers during prime time). Who watches? "Mostly housewives," claims a channel spokesman, who are presumed to be waiting up for husbands who are policemen, waiters, elevator operators, janitors, cab drivers-or late, late, late...
...Boston College does not happen to be Kennedy's alma mater, it does boast some distinguished alumni: Cardinals William O'Connell and Richard Gushing, Massachusetts Governors Maurice Tobin and Charles Hurley, Theologian John Courtney Murray. Yet for years many an old grad preferred to forget that he ever went to Boston College. Socially it was an Irish C.C.N.Y. without that school's academic status. And then during World War II enrollment plummeted clear down...
...Shimer has fewer courses than any college going," says its president, F. Joseph Mullin, 56, and he means it as a boast. Largely unknown and unsung outside the Midwest, Shimer (rhymes with rhymer) aims to be not a training school of the professions but a "community of scholars.'' The Episcopal-related college has no departments, and teachers move through the school's three areas-humanities, social sciences and natural sciences-as easily as do the students. The chaplain, for example, teaches drama...
...little, boast a little...