Word: featly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Carter Coal Co. of Coalwood, W. Va. is pleased with itself because it brought the suit which broke the original Guffey Coal Act in the Supreme Court. Carter Coal Co. is now out to duplicate this feat with the Guffey-Vinson Coal Act. This Act set up a seven-man national Bituminous Coal Commission in Washington, with the major purpose of creating minimum prices for soft coal. In a city where frustrated bickering is a fine art, the Bituminous Coal Commission set a new high before it finally produced its first set of minima two months ago (TIME...
...Rabbits' most spectacular feat was their practical monopoly of the 1000 yard run by taking first, second, and fourth places. The rest of their points were registered in taking first place in the 600 yard run, the low hurdles, and the high jump, with other lower places...
...true in the case of Charlie Hutter, who, by inhaling oxygen for several minutes before the start of a time-trial, turned in the phenomenal time of 22.8 for the 50. The world's record is 22.6. However, Ulen was quick to deprecate the importance of Hutter's feat in view of the fact that it is likely that almost the same results can be achieved by "forced breathing...
...winner of the International League is now a foregone conclusion, tonight's contest will be more significant in respect to the outcome of the Quadrangular League, composed of Harvard, Yale Princeton, and Dartmouth. Harvard faces the difficult feat of winning all their remaining games in this loop if they are to walk off with top honors for the third consecutive year. At present Dartmouth has a commanding lead with four victories, two over Yale and one over Princeton and Harvard...
Rogers, whose feat was performed last work, but whose modestly has kept reports of his prowess from the headlines, said that he alternated four vanillas and 19 chocolates with one sundae to achieve the record, five above the previous mark of 19, last held by Peabody. Rogers declared that he won "a couple of dollars, but I haven't collected...