Word: boasting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tars boast an excellent defense on the ground, but have shown weakness in the air, which should be good news for Charlie Roche and Leo Flynn if the Crimson forwards can keep the hard-charging Sub Base line from breaking through. The lineups: Harvard Sub Base DiLuzio, le le, Simonian Fisher, lt lt, Grotbus LeBart, lg lg, Tallant Faber, c c, Manning Allen, rg rg, Tate Foster, rt rt, Loepfe Champion, re re, Olson Tennant, qb qb, Hodges Jackson, lhb lhb, Jones Flynn, rhb rhb, Charouhus Cowen, fb fb, Moravee
...wartime Washington) he tossed his law books into a bag, went back to his home in Paris, Ky. He will practice law in Lexington and Frankfort, turn his eager eagle eye on the politics of his home state. At Harvard "Prich" had been particularly famed for one boast: that he would some day be Governor of Kentucky. This he branded last week as a base canard; he just intends to "run for something." With a fair show of diffidence he confided: "My ears are to the ground, but I don't hear any popular clamor...
...distances are measured from the Nihonbashi, or Bridge of Japan, crossing one of the canals in the heart of the city, and most Japanese towns boast a copy of Tokyo's Nihonbashi. Many streets are pleasantly named for flowers, trees and beasts. Exceptions: Anjin-cho (pilot street), named for Will Adams, first Englishman to visit Japan; the Ginza ("mint for silver coins"), Tokyo's main street, combining the worst features of Broadway, Sixth Avenue and the Atlantic City boardwalk. Signs in Roman characters along the Ginza were often just a little wrong: "Milk Snop"; "Barber Shot"; "Traunks & Bugs...
...January was elected president of the White House girls' club. She was the only woman among the twelve reporters permitted to attend President Roosevelt's funeral in the East Room. Since then, what with Mrs. Truman refusing to hold press conferences, she has had only scooplets to boast of: she was first with the backstairs report that the Trumans were cutting down the servants' staff, first to discover what colors the Trumans had painted the upstairs rooms...
Only in the Battle of the Bulge, where the tanks, halftracks and tank destroyers lay strewn in the woods almost as thick as acorns, did their boast fail. There the job took six weeks...