Word: boastings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...backstroke, the Eli's boast Mike Pettee, consistent winner and one of the East's speediest men in the event. And Pettee has himself been beaten by teammate Al Ratkietwich. From the Yale point of view this race should be Harvard is now tied for third place in the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League. It's not going any higher...
...hockey team meets Yale at New Haven this afternoon, it will get another of its few chances to see how ice actually feels underfoot. With scarcely any practise time behind them, the Yardling skaters will have to fight hard to beat a squad--supposedly equal on paper that can boast a long string of practise sessions in recent weeks...
Actually the Huskies boast a four-game winning streak, but two of these victories have been over Colby, a weak team, and the others over New Hampshire and Bowdoin. The rest of Northeastern's season has been spotty. However, the scrappy Huskies have played several close games against much stronger rivals...
...almost every game, someone tried to bring off the difficult "boast shot". It called for the geometric precision of a three-cushion billiard shot, the ball caroming sharply from one side wall to the other and dropping dead off the front one. Properly executed, it is one of the most difficult shots in squash racquets to return. (An impossible shot to return: a "nick," which hits at the floor-line of one of the side or back walls and rolls out with no bounce...
...third day, balding, 34-year-old Hunter Lott Jr., an old University of Pennsylvania man, squared off in the finals against Don Strachan, 40, ex-Princeton. Lott* outmaneuvered him, wore him down, and with the help of three "boast shots" became the new squash racquets king...