Word: boasting
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...know that the first thing any gullible high school student thinks of when he is accepted by Harvard is tradition. After all, not just any place can claim to have been the first college founded on these shores; even is this fortunate circumstance is overlooked, only eight universities can boast of Ivy League status. Besides all this, who else can show off such prominent alumni as James Schlesinger, Henry Kissinger, Archibald Cox, James D(NA) Watson, and Teddy Kennedy, along with some lively cynicism from Ralph Nader. And then what about distinguished likes of Henry James, John Dos Passos...
Perhaps Mr. Bright should have thought of a less boastful slogan than I FOUND IT! "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast" [Ephesians 2: 8-9]. Many evangelical Christians would agree that a more appropriate slogan would be HE FOUND...
...splendid the swine flu immunization program had been. Not ones to indulge in the luxury of hind-sight, the doctors defended the ill-fated campaign, writing that "faced with the situation at that time, we would have been forced to the same conclusion." Probably true, but nothing to boast about...
...shipped to his state. And when English and French authorities questioned America's panicky reaction, the U.S. vaccine establishment called their caution a case of sour grapes, claiming that if England has a vaccine-producing technology as advanced as America's it would have followed our lead--an ironic boast, given the production errors and delays that plagued the American program...
Seton Hall's Glenn Mosely leads the ECAC in scoring while the Manhattan Jaspers boast. Ricky Marsh and Steve Grant. Bob Fazio at St. Peter's is yet another all-American candidate. The polls tag Hofstra as the best in the East, as the Flying Dutchmen feature Richie Laurel, Bernard Tomlin, and John Irving...