Word: boasting
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Only Harvard crew coach Harry Parker would dare to ask his squad to practice seven days a week without fear of a possible mutiny. Only Harvard can boast three 1974 World Champion oarsmen. And only at Harvard would those three gold medalists have to fight for a seat in the varsity...
...whether the Houses were performing the function for which they were originated, until the late 1950s no heavy indictments were leveled at the Houses. Finley termed the '50s a "very, very happy period. Nobody ever failed to get into medical school or law school. I don't want to boast, but we [at Eliot] had 28 Rhodes when I was there. I think we only missed once. But that's only symbolic...
...entire action of the play is set in the room that serves as the site of the lovers' annual tryst. While their surroundings-furnishings, proprietor and all-remain unaltered during the play's 24-year time span, Doris and George can hardly boast the same luck. Each finds himself trapped over time in a series of personae that represent responses to both the vicissitudes of personal experience and social and political developments in the outside world. George-originally a guilty young man who admits "I know I'm no bargain and I suspect I'm deeply neurotic" - follows a common...
...participants in Operation Upset boast impressive credentials...
When the Elis enter the IAB tonight for their encounter with the Crimson's quintet they will boast a feeble 3-12 record. However, signs that Yale is coming out of the doghouse are evident. Yale is a respectable 3-3 since mid-January and despite losses last weekend to Penn and Princeton the Bulldogs hardly rolled over and played dead...