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Word: boasted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yardlings, undefeated until last Friday's game against Dartmouth, also face a tight contest. As in the past, the M.I.T. freshmen lack aggressiveness and lack teamwork, but boast several skillful South American forwards. Last fall the Engineers won, 3 to 2. Crimson Coach Poley Guyda will start his usual team, except that he has moved Bill Lingelbach from outside right to center halfback, replacing John Hadick, who was sidelined with a concussion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson, M.I.T. Booters Seek Second Win Today | 10/29/1952 | See Source »

...custom for the Crimson games and for every weekend save the Winter Carnival, the tribe leaves the beloved, ice-elated Hangover campus on masse. Only twice has the Big Green played host, and it can boast of but 21 wins and 3 ties in the 55 meetings of the series...

Author: By Richard A. Burgheim, | Title: Green Visitors Annually Paint Cambridge Red | 10/25/1952 | See Source »

Both Dartmouth and the Yardlings boast victories over Exeter, their only common opponent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Soccer Team Favored Over Indians | 10/24/1952 | See Source »

...Every Texan is a walking Chamber of Commerce, and there is absolutely nothing to boast about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 20, 1952 | 10/20/1952 | See Source »

...argument that "nobody knows what you're doing in Holmes" is common among those who like it. Harvard men often boast of the advantages of not knowing the men who live across the hall. In any Radcliffe dorm that it obviously impossible, but Holmes, because of its largeness and mixture of freshmen and transfers, still offers a cordial privacy...

Author: By Erik Amfitheatrof, | Title: Holmes: The Pine Wonder | 10/7/1952 | See Source »

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