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Word: featly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...idea just come to me suddenly a couple days ago," stated Norman Hapgood '41 who in the presence of a cheering crowd of forty, accomplished the feat last night of going out of a room on the fourth floor of Thayer, walking down four flights, and up again balancing a broom on his chin, to win a bet of two and a half dollars...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BROOM JUGGLER ACTS BEFORE CHEERING THAYER THRONG | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

...Pennsylvania's foremost practicing liberal by pitching political curve balls. To Pennsylvanians therefore it seemed phenomenally unnatural that Mr. Wilson should have been able to daub Mr. Earle along with Little Matt and to make some of the mud stick on both. Yet the mayor accomplished this feat last week in the furtherance of his effort to do the Governor out of nomination to the Senate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PENNSYLVANIA: Sugar Boy | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

What Manager Stewart had accomplished was reminiscent of the famed feat of Baseball Manager George Stallings, who in 1914 led the Boston Braves from last place in mid-July to a pennant and world championship in October. But Bill Stewart's achievement was in some ways even more remarkable, because: 1) he had led his team to a world championship in his first year as a hockey manager; 2) although a longtime hockey referee, he had never played the game except on Boston frog ponds, had never coached except at polite New England schools (including Radcliffe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Off-Season Hero | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

...match race of 150 yards with Bill Kendall, and in all of these races he came in second. In addition to being a member of the 1936 U. S. Olympic team, he has been a member of the All American swimming team for three years, an outstanding feat for any college man and one which few football players have achieved...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 4/20/1938 | See Source »

John L. Barr Jr. '39 achieved golfdom's greatest thrill yesterday afternoon when he scored a hole-in-one on the 210-yard 12th hole at the Belmont Country Club. He used a number four wood in accomplishing the feat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GOLF SQUAD MEMBER SCORES HOLE-IN-ONE AT BELMONT | 4/15/1938 | See Source »

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