Word: boastfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although Columbia does own a good $200 million worth of Manhattan real estate-including the land under Rockefeller Center-the boast is not literally true. But to many of the university's neighbors on Morningside Heights, Columbia is about as popular as a slum landlord. Last week 150 demonstrators, including many sympathetic students, clashed with police while trying to block construction of a new university gymnasium on park land that some residents of nearby Harlem wish to protect. Thirteen protesters were arrested. The confrontation was the latest in a long series of emotional disputes involving Columbia and Morningside Heights...
...Bullpups boast a frightening 18-0 record. But Harvard too has been playing some top-flight hockey. Pitted against the toughest opponents on the schedule, the Crimson has won its last seven in a row. Overall the freshmen...
...Yardlings go into their final games of the 1967-68 season against Yale in the LAB Saturday and at Dartmouth a week from today, three players boast double-figure averages...
...author of that threatening boast walked up to a snake charmer in the Indian city of Agra last week and, while his aides looked on aghast, seized a thick, six-foot-long python in his strong hands and draped it over his shoulders. Making a ten-day tour of India, the commander of the Russian navy was acting like the traditional sailor on shore leave. He viewed the Taj Mahal by moonlight, visited the Nehru Museum and the site where Mahatma Gandhi's body was cremated, and shopped for souvenirs. But Admiral Sergei Georgievich Gorshkov's trip to India...
...ranging from a portable medical ventilator (replacing the old iron lung) to a child's styrene-and-aluminum balance scale. Royal's stylishly minimal duplicator, Honeywell's computer console and Pitney-Bowes's addresser-printer are a visible reminder that thou sands of offices already boast such good-looking equipment...