Word: vaunt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sweep would earn more for the Crimson than a playoff spot. It would vaunt Harvard into eighth place and avoid a first round match-up against Clarkson or St. Lawrence...
...sweep would earn more for the Crimson than a playoff spot. It would vaunt Harvard into eighth place and avoid a first round match-up against Clarkson or St. Lawrence...
...them with a bulwark and ongoing network of support in their lives beyond the University. These sacrifices are to be made with no return whatsoever (the Bunting Institute and the Schlesinger Library are already thriving entities); and they are to be made solely in order to allow Harvard to vaunt before the world how much it has done for women--in a kind of belated public spasm of political correctness--by affiliating to itself a "Radcliffe Institute." More materially, these sacrifices are to be made so that Harvard may garner unto itself all alumni/alumnae dollars--it is currently prohibited from...
...debate culminates, it has come to focus primarily on a single dichotomy--"employer mandates"--which liberals vaunt as a benison to be distributed to heretofor hapless American workers, versus "individual mandates" which curmudgeonly conservatives offer as a rear-guard action to stave off the "potentially disastrous consequences" of the above mentioned liberal benison...
Resident tutorship is a subsidy--undergraduates pay for graduate students to live in the houses. Tutors have told me that they regard their post as a mini-fellowship. My experience on a tutor selection committee bears this out. Applicants were more likely to vaunt their Rhodes and Marshall scholarships than their experience as a camp counselor, advisor, or teacher...