Word: boastfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both Cummings and Boston also boast valuable game experience and a sound background in the fundamentals of the Harlow system. Cummings was on the starting eleven for a good portion of the '42 season, and Boston, who saw less action, will be remembered as the lad who snagged a Jack Comerford pass against Penn in the only bright spot of a 19-7 going over administered by the Quakers...
When brash young Burton K. Wheeler was campaigning for his first Senate seat 24 years ago, he made a proud boast: "If you ever see a picture of me on the front page of the Butte Daily Post, you will know that I have sold out to the company...
...outstanding feature of soccer, according to McDonald, is its standard set of international rules, which no other sport can boast. "It's the same game everywhere," he said, "even in Russia...
...Said candidate, with his wife and the niece's sister, journey to the big city to get some first-hand information. Niece number one manages successfully to conceal the fact that she has been singing and swinging in a Bowery night club for her keep, then makes good her boast of being with the Metropolitan, with the aid of her boss and manager, J. Durante, and the new routine hinted at above...
...Redman seed will be ready for planting next spring. So too, probably, will seed for another new strain, Rescue wheat, on which the destructive wheatstem sawfly (annual damage: $20,000,000) blunts its proboscis in vain. This year, as the E.F.S. celebrates its 60th birthday, it could boast that it had made Canadian wheat the world's toughest...