Word: boasting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Varsity, both Maryland and Navy have been outdoors for longer periods than the Crimson, and the College Park squad has already opened its season with a 9 to 3 victory over Drexel on Thursday. The Middies, who play their first game on Saturday against Vermont, boast a seasoned pitcher in right-hander Ron Burton. Little is known about Penn or Army, although the Cadets are captained by outfielder Glenn Davis, he of stage, screen, and gridiron
Harvard men have such esthetic musical tastes." From the lips of Grace Lyons at McKenna's--and it could just as well have been heard at Briggs and Briggs--the phrase was a complaint. But just a little altered, it might by a shy boast of the Music Department, which rates partial credit for a most astounding revolution in Cantabridgian taste...
Genaro had become an important man in Mexico. Lots of history had been made over his head, and it is his proudest boast that he has never repeated a word he has heard in the presidential office. Teresa, daughter of an Army officer, was proud to marry him-and is prouder now of their nine children, six of them sons. Says Genaro with quiet assurance: "I have talked with our ambassadors who have seen the feet of many of the world's rulers. They tell me my work is the equal of anything in Europe or America, superior...
Williams has a record so far which bodes no ill for the home team, but the visitors boast in George Owen 3rd an outstanding player and the son of a former Crimson great...
...career. Grey now and 69, Dr. Stern is a woman of consequence in the U.S.S.R. She holds the Stalin Prize for scientific accomplishment, is director of the Moscow Institute of Physiology and half a dozen other research enterprises, has nearly 300 scientific publications to her credit. She can boast the standard trappings of a top-rank Russian scientist: a fine laboratory of her own, a big automobile, the right to take a Black Sea vacation...