Word: bragging
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...maintain that their own Saint Brendan the Navigator got here 300 years before Columbus. And though Jewish organizations did not enter the scramble last week, Pennsylvania State Representative Herbert Fineman solemnly averred that Ericsson's trusty navigator was named Eric Mandelbaum. Peking was strangely silent considering the Red brag that a band of Chinese monks traveled from the Aleutians to Mexico back...
...year. To help heal the divisions between French-and English-speaking Canadians, Pearson pushed through a new Canadian flag and set up a special Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism. In the prairie provinces-where the political leanings are Conservative, but the wheat buyer is always right-he can brag about last month's $450 million sale of 222 million bu. of wheat to Russia. He has installed a new and vastly expanded social security system, a new minimum-wage law and a far-reaching anti-poverty program. All this seems to be reflected in the most recent Gallup...
...aircraft carriers (the Saratoga and Lexington), with partner Theodore H. Barth was commissioned by the Navy to devise a better bombsight and in 1939 finally produced a compact (12 in. by 19 in.), though enormously complex, $25,000 instrument so precise that U.S. bombardiers could, as they loved to brag, literally "hit a pickle barrel from 20,000 ft."; of pneumonia; in Zurich, Switzerland...
...contrast. Harvard is 1-4, with only 7-5 win over M.I.T. to brag about. to midfielders Dexter Newton and Marry Van Oudenallen have hurt the at its thinnest position. Capitain Gates was hurt in the M.I.T. game. Though veterans Dick Ames and Ted have been impressive, the attack has been inconsistent; the seven goals against M.I.T. were the most the Crimson a scored this season...
...Three" form the second division of the Ivy race, with Yale's victory over Cornell the only win that any of them can brag about. Of course, the league is far from being unbalanced as the early standings indicate--any of the bottom three have shown the potential to knock off any of the others. IVY STANDINGS Won Lost GF GA Brown 2 0 13 4 Dartmouth 2 0 8 6 Cornell 2 1 11 7 Yale 1 2 3 10 HARVARD 0 2 4 12 Princeton...