Word: boastfulness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American who comes to Oxford at the beginning of Michaelmas Term is likely to wonder why this damp and draughty meeting-place of wintry winds and rains was ever chosen for the seat of a university. While Oxford cannot boast of the yellow, strangling fogs which infest London and turn her days into hideous night, she can offer a specimen of a sort no less disagreeable to newcomers. For a few hours at least during these quiet winter days, a thick white layer is apt to fill the bowl which the Isis and the Cherwell have made between Cumnor, Boars...
...There still is a race which says: 'Of course, I'm a businessman and music means nothing to me.' But more people are beginning to realize that they might as well boast in this fashion: 'Part of my brain doesn't work, hence music means nothing to me.' It is ceasing to be such a very great mark of distinction to be a lowbrow...
Harvard, however, has been too consistently free from major injury of late years, and strikingly so in the season just passed, to owe her good fortune to the mere workings of chance. Few are the squads that can boast a broken finger as the most serious accident to any member during a whole season's play. But it is just this result which the Harvard system of training is designed to produce. Though the ninety minute practice established this fall contrasts sharply with the extended arc-lit sessions common in other institutions, the Harvard team was more successful than...
After this touchdown Gilligan's passes began to function and were largely responsible for the next three scores. Quite as many of the overhead attempts were going awry as were finding their mark, though, and the coaches have a long way to go yet before they can boast of anything resembling an effective passing game...
...world press was just on the scent of the Anglo-French negotiations by Sir Austen himself, when he committed the crowning blunder of formally alluding to them in an indirect, tantalizing manner before the House of Commons. These indefensibly premature remarks, amounting to an open boast that he had done something clever in secret which he was not yet prepared to reveal, placed upon Sir Austen Chamberlain personally an imputation of sheer obtuseness which his political enemies are now loudly tooting up and down England, in view of the approaching General Election...