Word: boastful
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...down in tightly contested congressional districts these days, it often turns out that the G.O.P. candidate there has discovered a previous commitment elsewhere, the political equivalent of suddenly needing to have your tires rotated. Yes, it's true that Florida Congressman Clay Shaw has been running radio ads to boast of his record working closely with a President, but the one he's talking about is Bill Clinton...
...football,” Webb says. “Harvard’s football team is the best in the Ivies, but people all around the world associate Harvard and rowing.”The draw of prestige is an incontrovertible one: Harvard’s crew programs boast dozens more Ivy and national championships than any other sport. Former Harvard varsities have competed in the Olympics, and both varsity programs make routine trips to the Henley Royal Regatta. There is a strange inevitability to winning in Newell Boathouse—one that is an excellent recruiting tool for athletes...
...worker bees at University Hall have forgotten to tell you something: They’ve already built you a student center. It’s multiple floors, it’s open 24 hours, and soon will boast a hopping café. Hundreds of students pass through its doors everyday. Actually, you’ve already been there. It’s Lamont Library, and the plan will be completed as soon as they throw out the books. Administrators tonight are unveiling Lamont’s newest addition: a late night café. The ground floor eatery, which has been...
...Economics 1010a and its more mathematical sister-course, 1011a, boast a combined enrollment of 574 undergraduates this fall—a 21 percent rise from...
...they do it intensely. Strangely enough, this even goes for wasting time, as I discovered in an airport security line last May: “The longest I’ve ever slept is about 30 hours,” I heard an obviously exhausted undergrad behind me boast. “But I could probably go longer now.”All talk of going longer aside, I made it my mission after arriving home in August for a month of vacation to test my endurance and skill not only in sleep, but also in something very closely related...