Word: featly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...action on the Team's ambition to join the ranks of major sports, certainly they were making a grave mistake for the cause of swimming in the College. For either swimming has got a case in its favor, or it has not got a case, but as dexterous a feat of sidestepping and punchpulling as was shown last night will scarcely convince the College that there is anything to be said in the natators' favor...
...enclosing a clipping from the Toronto Star of April 7 which would cast some doubt on the biological possibility of this feat in view of the fact that the tabby turns...
...Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart; Dwight Deere Wiman, producer) is a dewy and precocious musicomedy about a gang of youngsters who, abandoned by their vaudevillian parents for the summer, put on a revue to keep off the county farm. If for nothing else, the production is notable as a feat of theatrical cradle-robbing; there is hardly a vote in the cast...
...native of St. Louis, young Miller is one of the outstanding prospects on the Yardling team in years. He won all his seven bouts against Yale, a rare feat, and then went down to the Freshman Intercollegiates in New York and won a Clemens medal for his excellence...
...fame or to refute a new assortment of rumors that he had robbed a Cairo post office and murdered an Arab who saw through his disguise. Instead he headed an expedition into unmapped Somaliland. succeeded where five previous attempts had failed in reaching Harar, saved himself by a feat of flattery from being killed. On another expedition into Somaliland, one of his officers was killed, two were badly wounded and Burton got a spear through his cheek...