Word: boastfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Battle Broom. The popular belief that the Army throws away a truck when it gets a flat tire may die hard. But the long convoys of mobile maintenance companies, wich followed the U.S. armies, boast that they tidy up a battlefield in two weeks...
Thus, at the University of Virginia, where most of them have gone, a famed, hearty family of U.S. churchmen is immortalized in a drinking song. During the past 100 years, nine of the Kinsolvings of Virginia have become Protestant Episcopal clergymen. Last week the family could boast its third bishop: the Rt. Rev. Arthur Barksdale ("Big Tui") Kinsolving II, 50, new bishop of Arizona...
...Freshman "Murray" Butler got his first glimpse of Columbia in 1878, it was a college with 227 students and a little cluster of buildings on one city block. Last week, when 83-year-old Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler handed in his resignation as president of Columbia, the university could boast 30,000 resident students, assets worth $231,561,407, a reputation as one of the biggest and finest universities in the world...
...hour and a half later, when President Truman said it wasn't so, recriminations began. Editors and broadcasters who had gone off halfcocked, blamed it all on the A.P. So, gleefully, did the U.P. and I.N.S., which have long smarted under the A.P.'s boast: the Byline of Dependability. The A.P. blamed it all on the "high American official"-Senator Tom Connally...
Veterans' hospital doctors realize that other doctors look down on them (few are taken into local medical societies and the American Medical Association) and that patients boast of telling them...