Word: boastfulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...raising more money. When one considers the facts that Harvard controls more money than some nations, that last year its investment wizards created one billion dollars out of thin air, that it has a moral responsibility to contribute to its local community and, as it likes to boast, "serve mankind," its inability to provide student-run public service programs with the resources they need is shameful...
Research conducted in four Lamont bathrooms--two men's and two women's--reveals that the lower level facilities do not boast the same abundance of social commentary...
...second period was perhaps just a blur, or more appropriately, a nightmare, for the hapless Terriers--who boast only club team status--as they yielded five more Crimson tallies...
...more than 25 years, broke silence to charge that one component of "Dr. B's" treatment was physical abuse. Investigating scholars belatedly discovered that Bettelheim had lifted, without credit, many of his provocative insights from other writers and had flagrantly lied about his background. For example, he liked to boast that his entry into analytic training had been approved by Sigmund Freud himself. But there is no evidence that he ever met Freud or trained to be an analyst. (Bettelheim's doctorate was in philosophy, not medicine or psychology...
...other hand, the Catamounts boast two all-American Hobey Baker candidates in Eric Perrin and Martin St. Louis who, in particular, know how to bear down and score...