Word: boastfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...haben unsere Bomben gerade dortin geschmissen wo wir sie haben wollten. ("We dropped our bombs just where we intended to.") Thus Captain Schumann of the Luftwaffe described for German radio listeners the daytime air attack on London last week. Perhaps Captain Schumann did not know when he made his boast that 42 children (aged six to 16) and six teachers had been killed by a bomb which crashed through the roof of a four-story schoolhouse...
...Midwest can boast seven of the nation's top ten basketball teams. But the South and Southwest are fast producing some of the most spectacular teams in the country. No ambitious basketball team dares appear in public nowadays without at least one player who towers 6 ft. 4. In the South and Southwest coaches often round up whole teams of that altitude. The Buffaloes of West Texas State Teachers College, self-styled "tallest team on earth," average 6 ft. 5, include a 6 ft. 9 in. freshman named Ray Ellefson...
This all must have happened because some anonymous South Shore brains have recently come out with something that smells of Lampoon influence: The Business School Bugle. The editors of this weekly paper-waster have kept their identities well concealed, because, as they themselves boast, "(We are) disapproved by the President, but not by the Fellows of Harvard University...
...meets of the caliber of Lake Placid's will be few. But New England can boast the cream of European ski teachers. The world's most famed Skimeister, 52-year-old Hannes Schneider, is continuing at North Conway, N.H. the school he founded in the Austrian Tyrol. At Manchester, Vt. his onetime assistant, Otto Lang, has transplanted the school he operated at Sun Valley during the past two years. Among Lang's corps of assistants are many famed Alpine experts, including Shirley ("Elli") Stiller, one of the few women instructors...
Before the war China's National Health Administration could boast of tiny gains toward improved public health, but war has amputated many of China's health facilities. Drugs have to be imported by plane and the cargo space allotted to them is only 18 tons a month. Even these drugs are poorly distributed because of hoarding, lack of internal transportation and the complete isolation of guerrilla areas from medical help. A wounded Chinese must usually rely on stoicism rather than morphine...