Word: boasting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth...
...Crimson has much tough cat gut to out-batter during the next three weeks. No one is particularly worried about Brown this afternoon, but Cornell this Saturday poses a bigger problem. The veteran-studded Cayugans boast national reputations in their top men and have depth and prowess in their reserves. Along with Yale and Princeton who usher out the season in the middle of May, they will have history and the guesses of ouija specialists on their side when they cock their racquets for the Crimson, and it is difficult to tell whether the team's and Barnaby's optimism...
This will put the Crimson well behind all opposition but M.I.T. in point of experience the day after tomorrow, as both Princeton and Rutgers have already raced. The Tigers, who boast only three returnees from 1947, dropped their opener to a strong Navy boat last week, while Rutgers, never a fear-provoking aggregation, dropped one to Penn by four lengths the same day. M.I.T. is an untested, but usually dangerous, competitor...
...years, Bostonians had come to boast of their Russian-born conductor as their grandparents once boasted of Emerson or Dr. Holmes. He was a welcome autocrat at any Brahmin table, and when his concerts were over, Boston dowagers liked to flock backstage to kiss and be kissed on both cheeks...
This booster's boast was not uttered by a Kansas Citian but by a visiting French novelist. When Andre Maurois, in 1946, was teaching a course in biography at the University of Kansas City, he was smitten with Kansas City's beauty. "Who in Europe, or in America for that matter," he asked, "knows that Kansas City is one of the loveliest cities on earth...