Word: boastfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eliot, undefeated in two years, will boast the backfield running of Riley Gilbert and John MacNamara. Charles Cabot will quarterback and do the passing for the Elephant aerial attack...
...International News Service's Robert G. Nixon was the first to flag his office. But I.N.S., working on a telephone tip, had already put out a bulletin at 2:24 p.m. and scored the kind of beat over its wire-service rivals that press-association men love to boast about. Text of the bulletin: "Police reported that one of their officers has been shot in front of the Blair House, official residence of President Truman. No other details were immediately available...
Conductor Beecham's crooning modesty did not come from any qualms about the quality of his orchestra. As orchestras go, his Royal Philharmonic is almost brand-new (though the Royal Philharmonic Society, which sponsors it, can boast that it commissioned a tenth symphony from Beethoven, which he never lived to write). But Sir Thomas had painstakingly collected his orchestra himself after World War II-"because there was no existing British orchestra of a high enough standard to maintain my reputation." After five years of drilling and polishing, he was confident that the Royal Philharmonic was one that he could...
Before last Saturday Amherst boasted an undefeated string of 13 straight wins dating back to the 1948 season. Wesleyan's second half rally cut the skein, 4 to 2, but the Jeffs still boast one of the hotted offenses is the league...
...varsity harriers boast one of the best records in the East, with five straight victories. Ted Mearns, Yale captain, has been breaking records all season, and is backed by a strong team including Bob Johnson, Emery Reeves, Roland Garefalo, and Warren Clifford. If comparative scores mean anything, the Elis should win easily--they have never scored more than 20 points, and defeated Brown by 16. The Crimson lost to Brown, 34 to 45. Both beat Dartmouth by approximately the same score...