Word: bostonism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ross approached the dais with a sheaf of figures in hand. Harry Truman rose, grinning, and without waiting for the formality of an introduction, said into the mike: "I have some early election returns. Lehman and O'Dwyer seem to be winning. It looks pretty good." After the Boston ice cream pie had been cleared away, the President rose again to announce "the latest returns on the Lehman-Dulles fiasco - and it will be just that when Lehman gets through with him . . . We have a report that the New York Times and the New York Daily News - both Dulles...
...years at Boston's corruption-laced City Hall, City Clerk John B. Hynes had learned something about running a big city and plenty about how not to run one. He had most of the necessary equipment for political success in Boston (he was Irish, Catholic and Democratic), and he harbored little love for the shopworn, sticky-fingered machine of Mayor James Michael Curley...
Jerry Nason, Boston Globe: "Yale has won three football games this season. This leads to the suspicion that the place is lousy with athletic scholarships. Since Harvard isn't lousy (no comma here, please) with athletic scholarships, my vote is the Eli by the margin of one scholarship...
While some aspects of football have changed considerably over the years, others haven't. For instance, the Boston Globe, writing of the 1891 Harvard-Yale game observed that "It was Harvard beef against Yale science. Harvard muscle against Yale agility. Science and agility won." Year Harvard Yale Year Harvard Yale Year Harvard Yale Year Harvard Yale 1875-76 4g-4t 0 1893 0 6 1912 20 0 1931 0 3 1876-77 3t 1g 1894 4 12 1913 15 5 1932 0 19 (Yale...
...received honorary degrees from Harvard, Princeton, Wesleyan, Columbia, Pennsylvania, Williams, Boston University, University of Hawaii, Western Reserve, Trinity, Rollins, and the University of Lyons, France...