Word: boasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spite of what the printer may say, seekers of blasphemy or eroticism will find lean pickings in the current Advocate. The three stories each boast at least one attempted or completed seduction, but by modern standards they are quite tame...
...courses themselves, mostly small conferences of six to ten students, boast two unique features. One is no examinations or grades. The reason for this, Taylor points out, is that exams are bad educationally. If a girl studies only for grades, she is not becoming as involved in learning. "She's competing." Taylor maintains, "for Phi Beta Kappa or some other horrible thing rather than becoming a bigger and better person." Whether or not the shapely Sarah Lawrence female is bigger and better mentally than her Radcliffe sister could only be decided by judicious testing. While lack of exams lifts...
Lamont inserted the wedge, the Graduate Center widened the gap. Now that Burr has crept right in, the University can boast that it still points the way in education by absorption...
Irvin's performances in the Negro National League back up his modest boast. But not until Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color line did fleet-footed Monte Irvin get his chance. By that time...
With his staff Shapley has developed the foremost Graduate School of Astronomy in the country which can boast one-third of the nation's Ph.D.'s over the last twenty years. He has seen the number of Harvard-operated observatories increased from two to eight. His staff has invaded the continent of Africa. He has increased the number of working personnel four times over what it was when he came to Harvard in 1921. He has extended the Department's areas of research into the most numerous and varied phases of current inquiries...