Word: featly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...novice spectators, a six-day bicycle race appears to be a heroic feat of endurance. To an experienced six-day cyclist, each six-day race is merely a sprint in the endless marathon of his profession. Riding in a dozen or more six-day races in quick succession every season obliges him to become permanently adjusted to living conditions that include ten picnics a day, sleeping four hours out of 24, mostly in 15-minute catnaps, living, in full view and earshot of the crowds that come to watch the race, in a shelter that looks like a flag-draped...
...Last year in Libel, impersonating a lawyer, Actor Lawson achieved the remarkable feat of turning brick-red when his War record was aspersed from the witness...
...company's common stock, creating 1,265,000 shares out of 253,000 now outstanding; 2) an extra dividend of $2 a share on the present common; 3) a change of their corporate name to Spiegel, Inc. Each in its own way, these three acts celebrated a remarkable feat of applied business science. It was applied in 1932 with the result that Spiegel's has earned as much in the past four rocky years as in the 27 years of its previous mail-order life...
...Lord Hastings is one of three peers and four peeresses each indubitably entitled by hereditary right to carry the two spurs of His Majesty. It is not the business of the Court of Claims to decide how seven persons can carry a single pair of spurs, and, as this feat is impossible by any dignified means, King Edward will have the privilege and bother of deciding by whom and how his spurs shall be carried...
...thing and come over the wall through barbed wire. It isn't unusual to meet a proctor waiting for you on the other side but, as one young Englishman put it, that's the surprise element which though hard on the pocketbook adds much to the sport of the feat...