Word: boastfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Philadelphia's tiny army of baseball fans can still look the world in the eye. The Phillies may not add up to much of a team, but for the moment it is more than enough that they boast the best pitcher in baseball. This season, as for many a long summer, Philadelphia's oft-punctured pride rides high on the strong right arm of a visiting Middle Westerner named Robin Evan Roberts...
...cabinet, the new state would boast perhaps the best Department of Health, Education, and Welfare known. John Finley could head the Department of Labor and Steve Aaron would become curator of a Bureau of National Culture. The mint would present some problems, since a new currency would be necessary. A picture of Dean Bundy, however, could adorn the one dollar bill, Master Perkins the five, and John R. Thompson on the hundred. The thousand would remain bland until someone donates a new theatre. The revenue problem would be solved by a toll road on Mass. Avenue, a sales...
...building their $3,000,000 Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, the Clarks ignored cost (local boosters boast that the marble for the new museum was the biggest single order in Vermont since the U.S. Supreme Court), but insisted on quality. In 45 years of collecting, the Clarks have ranged widely, from Botticelli and Piero della Francesca to Puvis de Chavannes. The museum still has 30-odd Renoirs tucked in the basement, one soon-to-be-opened gallery hung with Italian primitives. The rest of the Clarks' collection, housed in residences both in the U.S. and abroad...
Earlier, the victimized proctor had been inundated with rolling trash barrels, nailed into the bathroom, locked out of his room, doused with whiskey, and extinguished by Pyrene's best. His charges also boast five broken doors, 300 beer cans dropped on target from a four-story elevation, and several spontaneous combustions...
...colleges can boast the type of guest lecturer that the NWC can command, e.g., Vice President Nixon on foreign policy, Lebanon's Charles Malik on the Middle East, Ambassador Clare Boothe Luce on U.S. policy toward Italy. Between lectures and seminars, NWC students must also prepare annual theses of 6,000 to 12,000 words on such subjects as "Racial Factors in International Relations" or "The Korean Armistice and Its Consequences." Then during their last weeks they reach the climax of the term: each student gets a 23-day field trip to Europe, or Asia, or South America...