Word: hoast
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...behind the two editors loomed the two great publishers, dictators of policies and style. One was William Randolph Hearst, whose correspondents constantly supply him with expensive but startling scoops,* whose vital pungency has won him more millions of daily readers than any other individual publisher can hoast. The other was Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, the white-bearded little "man from Maine" whose Saturday Eve- ning Post and Ladies' Home Journal are as essentially sound and quiet as the Maine homes into one of which Publisher Curtis was born. Last week had Publisher Hearst seen Publisher Curtis he might well have...
...merit that distinction is rather surprising when its educational institutions are considered. Usually those portions of the country best equipped with colleges and universities are those betraying the most liberal tendencies. In the more provincial areas a certain prudishness about intellectual matters is expected. But in the Commonwealth, whose hoast is its great opportunities for higher education, the opposite is true...
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