Word: featly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Owner Navin's first move was to buy Cochrane. his next to insure his life for $100.000. Manager Cochrane's first move was to buy Outfielder Leon ("Goose") Goslin from the Washington Senators. The semi-miraculous feat of winning a pennant in his first year as manager he then performed with a team otherwise unchanged from the one that had finished fifth the year before...
When Robert Tyre Jones Jr. won all four of the world's major golf champion-ships-U. S. and British Open, U. S. and British Amateur-in the single season of 1930, he accomplished a feat which seemed clearly incomparable. At Cleveland last week, another golfer accomplished a feat which, if not quite the equal of Jones's "grand slam," was definitely comparable to it and in some respects even more remarkable. William Lawson Little Jr. of San Francisco won the U. S. Amateur Championship for the second year in a row, after winning the British Amateur...
...silk merchant, was a medical student at the University of Lyons. There he acquired surgical dexterity by tying two pieces of catgut with his index and middle fingers inside a small cardboard box so securely that no one could untie them with two hands. He also achieved the feat of sewing 500 stitches into a single sheet of cigaret paper. Shortly after graduation he did two surgical tricks that brought him quick professional reputation. He devised the most successful way of sewing the cut ends of an artery together: put draw strings through each end of the artery: pull until...
...other feat was to remove a dog's goitre and put it back upside down. The reversed thyroid functioned well; the dog lived. Dr. Carrel received a call to McGill University. Soon he moved on to the University of Chicago where he, with Dr. Charles Claude Guthrie, perfected the technique of transferring kidneys, ovaries, thyroids, legs from one dog to another. Upon that accomplishment Dr. Carrel sailed into the Rockefeller Institute in Manhattan in 1906. Six years later the first Nobel Prize ever awarded to a U. S. doctor of medicine went to Alexis Carrel for his suturing...
...embittered over his failure to get rich, he took off on his second round-the-world flight-alone, without even a parachute or life-raft. Seven days 18 hr. 49 1/2 min. later he was back in New York. Airmen the world over agree it was the outstanding individual feat in aviation history, second to none...