Word: boasts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...always been Harvard's boast that extensive proselyting and propaganda is foreign to the spirit and traditions of the University, but at times this spirit has been pushed to the point of abnormal indifference toward all outside impressions and publicity. In his dual capacity as Secretary for Information and Secretary for Alumni Affairs, Mr. Seymour has an exceptional opportunity to cooperate with the Alumni Association and the various Harvard Clubs of the country in counteracting this indifference and in carrying on the work of same publicity. His appointment establishes a further link between the University and the Alumni...
Said the President: " Never has mankind faced difficulties of so varied a character or on so huge a scale as is now propounded to it. ... I think it is no unseemly boast to say that America is one of the governmental models of the world-the highest type of democracy on earth...
...also leads in air transport. According to Stéphane Lausanne, of Le Matin, France now has eight active air lines, six radiating from Paris to London, Amsterdam, Bucharest, Warsaw, Geneva, Marseilles, one from Antibes to Ajaccio (Corsica), one across the Mediterranean from Toulouse to Casablanca in Morocco. England can boast of only three or four lines to the Continent...
...trucks and by train. They are armed and wear police badges. Others follow them, and all at once the Lester mine commences a feverish production. For a day or two nothing happens, and then the mine guards begin to patrol the highways. They search passersby, they frighten women, they boast and are hardboiled, as professional scabs and company detectives usually...
...Crimson men soon became accustomed to the new style of attack, tied the score at 9-9, and shot ahead till the count stood at 18-11 at the end of the first half. Superior team-work asserted itself over loose passing and dribbling, although neither team could boast very accurate shooting...