Word: boastfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...makes us the sponsors of the First Plane Septet, be to heard commercially next year. This is also testifies to the magnificent structural genius of the pilgrim architects who designed Claverly. 4) Each night we receive, gratis--through our windows, the currents offering of the Hasty Pudding. 5) We boast of the most imposing stairwell in Cambridge, central location, and a room personally decorated by William R. Hearst, Jr.--(a monstrosity, visiting hours Monday-Friday...
...land-grant college with a strong military tradition. Proudest boast: it had more graduates in commissioned ranks in two world wars than West Point...
Last week, as it celebrated its 475th anniversary with a modest dinner in Manhattan (and no ceremony at all in London), the Press could boast branch offices in Melbourne, Toronto. Bombay, Calcutta, Madras, Wellington, Karachi, Glasgow, Cape Town and Ibadan, as well as a whole separate corporation in the United States. It is the only book publisher with its own paper mill; it has the world's largest permanent catalogue (10,000 titles), (the largest stock 15 million volumes) and probably the biggest sales (nearly 10 million books a year from the British list alone). The grandfather...
...same time. The graduate school stresses the social sciences ("We want to become in the social sciences," says one official, "what CalTech is in the physical sciences"), and the men's college puts its emphasis on government and economics. Each campus has its own endowment, and each can boast of having one-third of its faculty...
...everyone was cheering in the streets. In Oklahoma City TV dealers held a mass meeting to protest the boast of station WKY-TV that it would be the first U.S. station, outside the networks, to carry color TV. The dealers complained that WKY's advertisement was misleading and would slow down the purchases of black & white TV sets. In Manhattan J. M. Smith, vice president of the Davega chain, admitted that business was generally slow and said that front-page stories about color TV had "helped kick it downstairs." Most TV manufacturers maintained a discreet and presumably busy silence...