Word: feated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pages the anthologist has managed to gather together the finest of the old and still he has found space for examples of the new. When it is realized that he has also given many excerpts from longer works--such as from Shakespeare's plays and from the Bible--the feat is seen to be no small...
...Fons. Neither of these hurlers compare with Owen Carroll, the peer of Purple pitchers, who held away on college diamonds several years ago, but both are reliable and occasionally turn in a sterling performance. Fons proved capable of downing the Crimson forces last spring and may repeat his feat this year...
...trip, which will take the greater part of the summer, Ostheimer hopes to ascend four of the highest mountains in the Rockies; Mount Columbia, the North Twin, and Mounts Clemenceau and Robson, a feat which has never been accomplished before. Seven men will go on the expedition, two besides Ostheimer being Harvard undergraduates...
...Lieutenant Wooster turned the beak of the American Legion, slightly, ever so slightly. With that turn, the plane lost flying speed. A landing was now imperative. Marshes, mud flats, duck ponds yawned below. Upon a small patch of green, Lieutenant Wooster made a perfect landing-an almost unheard-of feat with a plane loaded so heavily. The yellow giant skidded across the green marsh into the muddy waters of a shallow duck pond, wherein the giant's beak stuck. Its tail completed a semicircle. In its cockpit lay Lieutenant Wooster with his neck broken, Commander Davis with his face...
...Mother of fivE . , . Mother of five ," your Sports Editor repeats that three times before the name of Mrs. George W. Wightman, and seems to think it a great feat that she has been five times a mother yet has won three tennis titles...