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Word: boasted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best small sailboat racing in the country is in Buzzards Bay and Vineyard Sound, perhaps because these two bodies of water boast fresh, moderate winds almost every day of the summer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Spring Visitors to Cape Cod Discover Unseasonable Welcome, Opportunity | 5/4/1951 | See Source »

...will provide most of the opposition for the varsity track team today, with Holy Cross thrown in for the ride. The Terriers, who have won their first two meets this spring, boast several outstanding men who should be able to pile up quite a few points. The Crusaders have only one runner who is a serious threat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Varsity Teams Play Host in Seven Contests Today | 4/28/1951 | See Source »

...mile squad can boast Emil SanSoucie, champion cross country man last fall...

Author: By Laurence D. Savadove, | Title: LINING THEM UP | 4/26/1951 | See Source »

...With a drumfire of Page One stories, the paper detailed the operation of $600,000 U.E. slush funds, used to influence legislators, city officials and newsmen. Result: U.E. management was overturned and three top officers were convicted in federal court (lending color to an old P-D staffers' boast that "once the P-D is on your trail, there's nothing left but jail or suicide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Man Over Legend | 4/16/1951 | See Source »

...revolved in turret round, And warned the Southern foe That ne'er a band of selfish men Our Union could o'erthrow' No more her ironclad deck shall boast The strength to make men free;--Sixth Naval District brass have scorned The Scourge of Slavery...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Drive Starts to Raise U.S.S. Monitor | 4/14/1951 | See Source »

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