Word: featly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kneubuhl, Ray Malott, Stanley Hiserman, Jack Weierhauser) scooted around the track in 1 min., 25 sec.-.8 sec. faster than the mark set by a University of Southern California team in 1927. Runner Weierhauser's tape-breaking for the world's record was not his only major feat of the day. As anchor man in the mile relay, the last event of the day, he outran University of California's Olympic Champion Archie Williams to give Stanford the ten points it needed for top score in the meet...
...They Gave Him A Gun, no masterpiece but a fast-moving, adult screen play, has the ad vantage of highly proficient performances by its three principals, notably Gladys George in her first major role since Valiant Is the Word for Carrie. Good shot: Jimmy's version of the feat that got him the Croix de Guerre...
...June 27 economists including Cleveland's Col. Leonard Porter Ayres saw no signs that General Dawes was right. But less than two weeks later (TIME, July 22, 1935) steel ingot production suddenly began the rise which has been virtually continuous ever since. By this modest but clean-cut feat Banker Dawes gained a reputation as a Recovery Prophet.* Starting up from his laurels last week, "Charlie"' Dawes published a 45-page book, How Long Prosperity?, in which he risked another and equally definite prediction. His answer to his own question: barring currency inflation or war, a "high degree...
Putting salt on the tail of a cosmic corpuscle which can penetrate 10 centimeters of lead is no mean feat, but Jabez C. Street, assistant professor of Physics, and Edward C. Stevenson, instructor in Physics, have succeeded in doing just that, according to announcements from Jefferson Research Laboratory...
...vitamins A and D can now be produced to sell as cheaply as good brandy is a fact which the chemical engineers of Arthur D. Little, Inc. let out of the pandora box of industry last week. The process simply requires distillation in a vacuum. This is an engineering feat so new that few industrialists know that it exists or what it means. Patents belong to English and Dutch concerns (Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd., Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co. Ltd.. Batavian Petroleum Co.). In the U. S., Eastman Kodak Co. is using the method to refine organic mixtures like...