Word: feated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rainy day at Brule, the President shot a shotgun at sailing clay pigeons and had the satisfaction of seeing 24 out of 25 break in mid-air-a surprising score for one new to trapshooting.* At Lewis, occurred a feat even more surprising. As their fishing boat slipped around a bend in the stream, President Coolidge, Broker Lewis and Secret Service Man Walter Ferguson beheld a tall brown crane standing on one leg in the water, 20 yards away. Cranes eat trout. Broker Lewis pays a bounty of $2 for each crane killed on his acres...
More and more intricate became the network of drifts (tunnels), branching off from the vertical shafts. If the two weary prospectors who first jumped into the abandoned 6-foot pit tried to duplicate the feat today, they would fall more than a mile into the bowels of the earth. If they started to walk through the maze of drifts owned by the Anaconda company alone, they would not see the sunlight for 32 days. They would have covered 800 miles...
...spinster's darling, last week displayed a letter from Governor Meriwether Lewis Walker of the Panama Canal Zone, permitting him to try to swim the 50 miles of the Canal. He started. No long-distance swimmer, this self-generator of publicity intended to interrupt his feat every time he grew tired. A soldier in a motor boat accompanied him to shoot at any obnoxious alligators. Trans-canal steamship passage was not halted. Nonetheless, the proposed stunt approached the scandalous. It costs the U. S. several hundred dollars to open the canal locks needed for the swim. At Gatun Locks...
...fashion, a pair of girl twins, whose age totals 28, propelled their monotonous way through the murky waters of lower New York Bay last week. At Battery Park, abode of the homeless, mecca of excursionists, they were fished out, their wet hands wrung, their likenesses caught by cameramen, their feat lauded. For 38 miles, for 7 hrs. 41 min., they had inched a zigzag course from Sandy Hook. To eschew a tide they headed eight miles out to sea, were met by another strong tide in the harbor. "We could swim back again the same way, right now," said Bernice...
Though U. S. naval officers dared not comment officially on the raising of the F-14 within 34 hours, one gallant U.S. Rear-Admiral described the feat privily at Washington as "a miracle of efficiency and speed." Citizens of the U. S. were touched to learn that Captain Weil of the F-14 entered in his diary just before asphyxiation overcame him these words: "We are waiting. We hope...