Word: boasting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Navy's 150's cannot boast of a record to equal their heavies and they lost to Penn in their opener last week. But the race was a close one and the time was also excellent for the beginning of the season...
Napoleon once slept there, but the occupants of the moldering Grand Hotel in Bruges, Belgium do not boast about the fact. A dedicated band of scholars and students, they are trying to shape a new kind of Bruges-one in which Napoleons will be impossible. The institution they belong to is the highly visionary College of Europe. The college was born at the 1948 Congress of Europe in The Hague. There, Salvador de Madariaga, onetime Spanish Ambassador to the U.S., suggested that a special school be set up for the study of continental unification. A Flemish Franciscan, Anton K. Verleye...
...Londoners who happened to spot the notice in the Daily Advertiser one day in 1747, it must have seemed less an announcement than a boast: "There is now preparing for the press, and in great forwardness, in two volumes in folio, an English dictionary; etymological, analogical, syntactical, explanatory, and critical." Who could have undertaken such a gargantuan task? In 1755. when the two volumes came out, the world became aware that Samuel Johnson would forever be famous as Dictionary Johnson...
Coach Norm Shepard will start either Ken Rossano, victor over M.I.T. last Tuesday, or junior righthander Bob Kessler. Neither should have too much trouble. While the Judges boast five returning lettermen among their starters, last year's team won only two out of 16 games...
...second law suit as many weeks was threatening the coffers of the OCD yesterday. This time a successful verdict would decimate the New Haven sheet's masthead and its once proud boast...