Word: featly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...yesterday morning when the official receiver roused himself even before the cock knew it was daylight and hastened to meet a train. A crop of photographers had been carefully informed to the second of the time the train arrived. They were at the station seven minutes before--a marvelous feat, the representative came two minutes later--still more marvelous, but the train had crossed both and arrived ten minutes early...
...Varsity swimmers joined the exodus of the hockey and boxing teams of Princeton this weekend. Encourage by their 55 to 20 victory over Dartmouth in the last meet the swimmers will attempt to keep their underclass status. Among the Crimson proposer who will be out to duplicate the feat of capturing eight out of nine first places will be Art Johnson, who broke the pool record in the 200-yard breaststroke, Charlie Hutter in the 50-yard freestyle, Elisha Greenhood in the diving, Captain Colony in the 100-yard free style, Frank Coleman in the 440, and Cummin...
...floor) but there is a penetrating draft which comes first from the left and then from my back and overhead; so by a simple shift of the umbrella from my left to a verticle position and vice versa, as the wind changes, the trick is done. This little feat was suggested to me by a young Rhodes Scholar from Georgia; and though so many of the Rhodes men here are referred to in rather dampish terms, still this Southerner is so sensitive to cold weather to be of an original turn of mind. It is this same fellow who experimented...
...Instead it has become merely a clearing house for records and a donor of awards. Last week, the Ligue, of which stalwart, 68-year-old Clifford Harmon is still kingpin, announced the latest winner of its most important prize-the Harmon National Trophy for the year's outstanding feat in aviation. In the past it has been won by Flyers Post, Musick, Earhart. Winner for 1936: Millionaire Howard Hughes, for setting the transcontinental record which he broke fortnight ago (TIME...
...that a pilot named Dünnbeil had shot his glider into the air with a rubber cable, flown 700 yd. by pumping furiously on a treadle. This flight, authenticated by the German Air Sport League, was still a compromise of human and mechanical power. Last week, however, the feat which Icarus and Leonardo da Vinci made famous by failure was finally achieved. In Milan, where Leonardo experimented with flapping wings 400 years ago, Pilot Vittorio Bonomi took off, flew five-eighths of a mile in a bicycle plane worked only by his own strength...