Word: feated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Arizona. On New Year's Day, Governor George W. P. Hunt, bald and portly, onetime cowpuncher, who might well be called the father of his state, was inaugurated for the sixth time. No living Governor in the U. S. can boast of such a feat. Only one other man has ever been Governor of Arizona...
...progress in the projection of motion pictures by radio. A central difficulty, the translation of optical images into electric current capable of impelling bands of ether waves, had already been surmounted by experimenters with the photoelectric cell and amplifier, used in motionless television and telephotography. Dr. Alexanderson's feat was to utilize a beam of light (which in motionless telephotography has from 2 to 20 minutes to trace and transmit the desired light-pattern or image) at unprecedented speed, so that it could render a complete image within the minimum time that the human eye will catch an image...
...wireless telegraphy, permitting the clearer re ception of messages, and of more than one message simultaneously on the same antenna. By 1901 I had so built up the power of my transmitter that I attempted talking from Cornwall to Newfoundland-with success on the very first trial. (This feat bore out my old contention, assailed by many, that the curvature of the earth would not impede the progress of electric waves.) The following year saw the extension of transatlantic communication to Capes Breton and Cod from Cornwall and I noted, for the first time, the now familiar 'night effect...
...tumbler full of dried peas, place it in one room, and carry the peas one by one to fill and empty glass in another room. If one is able to do this, he is qualified, to try the vocabulary and intelligence test, called the "second course" after such a feat...
...students all be-monocled. Undismayed, I only 'screwed' my monocle the tighter into its eye socket, and was installed, amid acclaim as Lord Rector of Glasgow University. I am said to be one of the few Englishmen who can perform the 'impossible' feat of tossing my monocle into the air with thumb and finger and catching it again with my right eye socket...