Word: feated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Coolidge shook hands with Lux, gigantic police dog of blind Senator Thomas David Schall of Minnesota. He was the first man, excepting Lux's master, to perform such a feat...
...system the second largest telephone company in South America. British stockholders recalled, last week, that he had already gained control of the third largest (Chile Telephone Co.) and fourth largest (Montevideo Telephone Co.), both wrested from British interests. Last June, I. T. & T. celebrated an extraordinary feat. Fighting snowstorms, landslides, it had flung its telephone lines across the 13,000-ft. Andes, linking Valparaiso, Buenos Aires, Montevideo...
Brilliant and useful is Dr. Bergius' feat. Brilliant and useful too is another U. S. method of making artificial coal. Instead of throwing away the thick refuse oil left in refinery stills, it is heated in tubes several thousand feet long. This heating produces some vaporized, oil. The residue cools into shapeless blocks of bituminous coal, which can be processed just like natural soft coal...
...minutes last week Parisians watched one of Juan de la Cierva's autogyros (TIME, Oct. 1) hang stationary in the air. The feat was possible because the autogyro can keep in horizontal flight at the remarkably low forward speed of 25 miles per hour and because it was headed, during its last week's demonstration, into a wind of just about the same speed...
...Significance. Audacious as it is masterly, the conception of a young hero-heroine living richly century after century is a feat of imaginative intelligence. In unskilled hands the bold conception might well fall short of artistic execution, but Mrs. Woolf is a craftsman of great skill. The mechanics of sex-transformation and passage of time are deftly, almost blandly, subordinated to the phenomenon of one and the same temperament reacting to the characteristics of disparate ages. Orlando is influenced by each new mode, but vivid memories give him (her) a dispassionate perspective. The sweep of generations offers every opportunity...