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Word: boastfulness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...BROWN: Many pre-season forecasts have put Brown on top of the Ivy heap. True, the Bruins boast perhaps the best individuals offensive player in the league--quarterback Larry Carbone--and the top defensive player--linebacker John Woodring--but the bears will need more than that to weave their way to the head of the pack...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Six Have Shot at Ivy Crown | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

...awesome boast is on view. Part of its subtlety depends on the fact that everyone in town knows the man who began and finished these piles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New Hampshire: Chewing on Granite | 9/1/1980 | See Source »

...only was the American boycott a gift to Soviet propaganda but it will also allow Misha to boast, "I finally scared them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 25, 1980 | 8/25/1980 | See Source »

Today the National Council of Churches likes to boast that Sunday schools are still the nation's biggest volunteer enterprise, with a total enrollment of 35.6 million (27.1 million Protestant, 8.5 million Catholic). Still, if Wesley were alive, he would be glum. Except for conservative churches like the Southern Baptists, who are doing well, Sunday school participation has dropped by almost 25% in the past ten years. "Mainline" Protestant churches-Methodist, Presbyterian, Episcopal, have been worst hit. Says California's Institute for American Church Growth: "The Sunday school is in a desperate struggle for its very existence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Of Raikes and Ragamuffins | 8/25/1980 | See Source »

...Boston does boast some of the best real pizza in Monroe Doctrine precincts. The North End--the Italian section--Six Flags Over Italian Cuisine, an amusement park for the palate. The best pizza, the best beer, the best atmosphere--all belong to Regina's, the uncontested queen of North End fare...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cuisine Art in Cambridge: The Great Dining Hall Escape | 8/15/1980 | See Source »

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