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Word: bragging (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Moreover, the admissions office must continue its efforts to broaden the applicant pool in socio-economic terms. Though Harvard like to brag that 70 percent of the student body is on financial aid, this figure is deceptive in that it includes students with loans and outside sources of aid. A full 47 percent of the student body is thus actually defined as "no need" by the Office of Admissions and Financial...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Smugness at the Top | 5/20/1998 | See Source »

...Miami Beach ended with body art and/or disease transmission, keep the stress on the down low by drinking herbal tea, checking in with UHS and never, ever telling Mom. With everyone blubbering about Spring Break mishaps, keep your attitude cool because a snowflake but tattoo is nothing to brag about--that shit don't melt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: groovy train | 4/2/1998 | See Source »

Sophomore Fran Volpe, a 177 pound Harvard wrestler, said he has heard wrestlers brag about how many pounds they can lose to make weight. Volpe reminds us, though, that this pride is merely a strange offshoot of the sport and should not detract from the essence of wrestling itself...

Author: By J. MITCHELL Little, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: College Wrestling Reaches a Crossroad | 2/5/1998 | See Source »

...heard people brag about cutting weight, but not here," Volpe said. "I grew up around wrestling and have been around it for my entire life, and I've heard some things. Still, here, on the college level, you don't hear it as much...

Author: By J. MITCHELL Little, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: College Wrestling Reaches a Crossroad | 2/5/1998 | See Source »

...opposite sex. But Clinton, fighting accusations that while Governor he exposed himself to a female state employee, is now accused of behavior so reckless, so arrogant, so tawdry that if the charges turn out to be true, he should be ashamed to show his face, much less brag that he is going about "business as usual." None of the rest of us can. We feel his shame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's Crisis: Ken Starr, Gumshoe | 2/2/1998 | See Source »

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