Word: boastfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week the new plant, with a production capacity of 22,500 dozen pieces a day (11% greater than the old), was ready to open, 64 days from the time Lew Reese made his "two months" boast. One morning at 7 a.m., the opening whistle blew. The erstwhile construction hands went back to their pottery jiggers exactly 15 years from the day when Reese first reopened the abandoned plant...
Sunapee Mountain will boast a 3,000 foot chair lift by next winter if summer construction work goes well. The development will allow slat addicts to make a 1,000-foot ascent on the north side of the mountain near Mount Sunapee Station...
...major step had been taken to realize the plan. Washington, whose backing had helped win U.N. approval for partition, was now reluctant to support it (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). The Arabs, who have stridently defied the U.N. plan ever since it was voted, last week repeated a familiar boast. Said the Arab Higher Committee for Palestine (which speaks for the ex-Mufti of Jerusalem) : Palestine Arabs will "never submit or yield to any power going to Palestine to enforce partition...
...their small, gilded chamber at Westminster early last week, peers heard a favorite Socialist boast repeated. White-haired Viscount Addison, Laborite leader of the House of Lords, exulted: "It is a remarkable fact-indeed it is an unprecedented fact-that this government, with their large majority in the House of Commons, after two and a half years have not lost a single by-election...
...addition to the 1947 season's returning lettermen, the fencers boast good coverage in all three events--epee, foil, and saber--with the following men filling the key positions: Neil McNeil, John Ager, Halton Arp, Giles Constable, Stan Sheldon, Joseph Vera, and Ray Frankman. VARSITY SCHEDULE Feb.14 Cornell (away) Feb.18 Brown (away) Feb.21 Army Feb.25 M. I. T Feb.28 Princeton Mar.6 Columbia Mar.13 Yale (away) Mar.19-20 Intercollegiate Moet (at New York...