Word: boasting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...United and Schulte cut by announcing (in New York) that they would sell two 15? packages for 23?. Cartons of ten packages, $1.15. Last month President David A. Schulte of Schulte Retail Stores Corp., announced that he was going to do some price cutting that was price cutting. His boast was premature. For, of course, A. & P. and Liggetts sell so many products other than cigarets and cigars that they could afford to give away cigarets, if they chose...
...women. Starting from obscure beginnings and having as assets only the ideals and hopes of its initiators, Radcliffe weathered a long period of financial worries, at last to emerge into an era of large endowments and prosperity. No college for men or women in the country can today boast of higher standards of scholarship and attainment than can Radcliffe...
Again Columbia. Richard Glendon Jr. is the only eastern coach who can boast that he has lost no races. Last week his Columbia crews defeated M. I. T. For once, the dirty Harlem River was clear of debris. Columbia's freshman coach is Hugh Glendon, brother of Richard. Hugh, too, has lost no races...
...Some members of Princeton's present junior class boast that theirs is "the hardest-drinking class since the 'Nass' [Nassau Inn] "the bar closed...
...great Marlborough himself was no more punctilious than Capt. von Muller of the Emden. It was his boast that between August and November 1914 the Emden destroyed 20 million dollars worth of enemy shipping, mostly British, without the loss of a single life. True, the Emden sailed the Pacific under a British flag, disguised, with the aid of a disappearing canvas funnel, as the British cruiser Yarmouth. But within 1,000 yds. of her prey the behavior of the Emden was always scrupulously correct. Down came the flag and the dummy funnel; out broke the German ensign...