Word: boastfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Engineers boast a strong, well-coordinated attack, so the main burden of today's contest will fall on Bill Ennis, the squad's new goalie. Also helping to check the Tech forwards will be Don Louria, Jim Graham, and Frank Jessop at the defense positions...
Blond, 200-lb. Russian Ambassador Dmitri Alexandrovich Zhukov, who had chartered a DC-4 in Newark last week and had flown down with his wife and two children, seemed more embarrassed than pleased by the flamboyant reception. He hastily denied a local Communist boast that he was Marshal Georgi Zhukov's nephew, said he merely shared the same name-"just as Fernandez is the name of your Foreign Minister and also that of a prize fighter, Antonio Fernández...
Crimson editors now fondly boast that they are the keepers of a record for the longest continuous publication of any college newspaper. But twice in the 73 years since The Magenta first saw the light of day, Crimson editors, oblivious of the tradition they had been maintaining, almost allowed a break in the line...
...Military Government felt the seasonal compulsion, and broke out with bright buds of optimism. First, Colonel Frank L. Howley, governor of Berlin's U.S. sector, heartily hailed the "unqualified success" of the joint occupation during its first six months, cheerily added the tactless and probably inaccurate boast that the U.S. now was the most influential power in Berlin. Hard on Howley's heels, General Joseph T. McNarney, commander of U.S. forces in Europe, reported that food stocks in the U.S. zone were surprisingly ample...
College dramatics today are not only more of an art than they once were; they are very much more of an industry. At Yale, Wisconsin and Stanford, drama departments boast opulent budgets and even million-dollar playhouses. Yet the most newsworthy and perhaps the most notable of college drama schools-Catholic University's in Washington, D.C.-has a theater that holds just 350 people and a current production budget...