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Word: boastfulness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Before I got to Harvard, my older brotherwarned me about all the students who would bragthat they never cracked open a book in high schooland that at Harvard, they only cracked open beers.They would boast of their proficiency at speedquarters and their ability to write papers twominutes before they are due. Don't believe a wordof it, he instructed...

Author: By Jay K. Varma, | Title: That Problem Set Doesn't Really Matter Much | 7/3/1992 | See Source »

...claims that revolutionary rap speaks for oppressed inner-city youth, its main consumers are affluent white suburban teenagers seeking to cloak their adolescent rebellion in a veneer of ghetto toughness. Some formerly impecunious ghetto youths have turned into millionaires by becoming rap artists. Not for nothing does Ice-T boast on his recent release Original Gangster that "William Morris is my agency. I'll never go broke, got property...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sister Souljah: Capitalist Tool | 6/29/1992 | See Source »

...hero's welcome as she touched down in the Falklands to celebrate the anniversary of the military victory. The warm welcome no doubt included a dollop of gratitude for the current economic state of affairs. Today the 2,050 people who live on the archipelago's 30 inhabitable islands boast a per capita income of $30,000, as compared with the U.S. per capita rate of $22,000. If the upside has meant a VCR in every home, the downside is a threat to the area's cherished isolation, as tourists, developers and oil speculators take notice of the archipelago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fortress Falklands Strikes It Rich | 6/22/1992 | See Source »

...refuses to boast that she can be number one in the world, preferring the tactful response instead: "If I can get up to 20 in the world, I'd be very satisfied...

Author: By Ted G. Rose, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard's Bright Star Goes Big Time | 6/4/1992 | See Source »

This is not news to Harvard undergraduates. Currier House T-shirts this year boast, "At least we got screwed freshman year...

Author: By Molly B. Confer, | Title: NO MIDDLE GROUND | 6/4/1992 | See Source »

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