Word: boast
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Thus the Princeton meet may be close, or even worse. The Tigers boast a 15-ft. pole vaulter in Charlie Mitchell, a 6 ft., 8 in. high jumper in John Hartnett, a 49.0 quarter miler in Lew Hitzrot, and a host of fine sprinters and distance...
...philosophy as never before. No U.S. enterprise has done more to foster this trend-or has cashed in on it more successfully-than Chicago's Great Books of the Western World. This week, as it celebrates the completion of its first decade in business, Great Books can boast that it has sold more than 153,000 of its 54-volume sets, which include works by 74 authors ranging from Homer to Freud. Last year alone, 51,083 Great Books sets were sold for $22 million, a 27% increase over 1960. As a division of Publisher (and ex-Connecticut Senator...
Strasbourg, like Boston, is a port with a history as a "cradle of liberty," Wiggins said, and the two cities are roughly equivalent in size. The University of Strasbourg is almost as large as Harvard, but within five years it will probably boast an enrollment of 20,000 students...
However, in many parts of the state, apparently incongruous views flourish side by side. In Northern Arkansas, for example, they consider themselves progressive: a great deal of new industry has settled there recently (to escape creeping unionism in St. Louis), and they boast that they have no Negro problem. But the fact is that there hasn't been a Negro in the area since 1942--and he was found hanging from a tree the next morning...
...spacious, 260-acre campus along the Charles River, ten miles west of Boston, Brandeis now has 1,740 male and female students, 80% of them Jewish. From the start, it set admission standards at Ivy League level. With seven applicants for every place, it can boast that 66% of its freshmen come from the top 10% of U.S. high school seniors...