Word: boastfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chungking was only mildly disturbed. Tokyo has often made the boast before. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek occupied himself on Chungking's South Bank, correcting the proofs of his new book. Chungking spokesmen declined to tremble...
...Navy Supply School officers and the Midshipmen there will be a dance sponsored by the Private School Association of Boston which, it is rumored will proved the very best in female pulchritude that Boston can boast...
During the decoration ceremonies many men of the 19th discovered for the first time that the Group had a standard. It was uncovered in a vault at Tucson, Ariz., flown to Pyote, where Olds pinned the four silken streamers on it. No other outfit in the U.S. Army could boast four World War II citations...
Since that day, things have changed. Last week young (29) Lieut. David Hugh Conklin, the yard captain, could boast that his repairmen had long been giving shipyard service to any ship that could make port. Most of the yard's patients are Canadian craft, but ships of other countries also go there for overhaul. In Derry's shops and drydocks they can get repairs for anything, from broken optical equipment in binoculars and range finders to torpedo holes in their rusty hulls...
Although it has lost one meet and won none, Columbia will be no cinch. Navy will be tougher although it has suffered two setbacks and failed to crack the win column. Besides its victory over Penn, the Crimson can boast of vanquishing Brown and M. I. T. Neither of these conquests carry any weight in the Eastern League however...