Word: boasts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although Pennsylvania has not so high a team record at bat as the University hitters can boast, its hitting has been dangerously strong. Six players led by Captain Tremper, who plays center field, are batting over the 300 mark...
...went there, walking a considerable part of the way, riding a mule the balance. Exertion did him no harm, for the Armours have always been brawny, after their first U. S, progenitor, James Armour, Scotch-Irishman. James Armour came to the American colonies in the 18th Century, used to boast: "I was born on a Sunday morning, and baptized before eight o'clock, and the devil a bit of any disease could ever light upon me." He had eight children; his son John, nine; John's son Danforth, six (including Philip D. I and Herman Ossian). Philip...
Taxpayers. Though the German taxpayer will pay about twice what he proportionately paid in taxes just prior to the War, his taxes are even now slightly less than those of Englishmen, who take a rueful pleasure in the boast: "Britons pay the heaviest taxes in the world...
...with superb indifference to truth and the realities can assert that the Americans who fell in France did not die in vain. ... In eleven European countries despots wipe their feet upon the prostrate bodies of Liberty and Democracy, though none but Mussolini dares to avow it and to boast of profaning the twin goddesses in be half of whom Woodrow Wilson summoned this country...
Which is Northern Cambridge's boast...