Word: boasting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end it was not clear whether Treasurer Kennedy would resubmit his brother's name, or whether the Governor's Council would reconsider it if he did, or ; whether Councilor Wells would remember his boast: "I would get out of the council if I couldn't pass an intelligence test with a higher mark than James...
...early meeting of Slavic 155, commonly known as "Tolstoyevsky," he opened the lecture with: "There are too many people in this course. Auditors, go homel" A week later he was able to boast, "I chased all the auditors off in a day or two." The trouble was that many who had come as auditors stayed as regularly enrolled members, so that Poggioli had to announce, "We are moving from Emerson A to Longfellow Terrace. It should be very interesting teaching Dostoevsky and Tolstoy in Longfellow...
...today 34% of all airline travel is by air coach). North American made enough money to buy two Douglas DC-6Bs for nonstop transcontinental flights, has three more on order, and has been able to chop its coast-to-coast fare to $75 one way. The line can also boast proudly in its ads that it has flown "1 billion passenger-miles without an accident-A perfect safety record." North American, which will keep on flying while it files an appeal before the full board, makes no bones about its determination to force its way into the exclusive circle...
...have started with an open mind. But in the course of his four years of research, he turned up many claims by Lawrence and his enthusiastic biographers (Lowell Thomas, Robert Graves) that did not seem to jibe with the facts. The chief of these was Lawrence's boast that he had once been offered the post of High Commissioner for Egypt. There was no record of such an offer in writing, and from the testimony of living persons who might know the facts, Aldington decided that the offer had not been made...
...proud boast of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the nation's oldest art institution, is that until some 30 years ago almost every eminent figure in American art had been either an academy teacher or student. Last week in its brick and limestone quarters on Philadelphia's Broad Street, the academy celebrated its 150th birthday and backed up its boast by displaying 254 outstanding paintings and sculptures by former students and faculty members...