Word: featly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Duplicating the feat of the Varsity Middie boat, the Navy Jayvee shell jumped into the lead on the Severn within the first 20 strokes, and built up an advantage that Harvard and Pennsylvania's second crews could not overcome...
...Neilson's programs had apparently achieved the astonishing feat of pleasing both mothers and children. Chief characters are a tribe of invisible creatures, "very, very thin and streamlined," who are known as Orgets and come from The-Land-We-Know-Not-Of. Mrs. Neilson was a small girl in Philadelphia when she invented the original Orgets as companions. In those days Orgets lived in baubles on Christmas trees. Resurrected for Radio, they now flit about in airplanes too thin to be seen, slide under doors, squeeze into books. In each program they do a good deed. Sample...
...sheer distortion of plain words out of their plain meaning this could scarcely be surpassed, and no such feat was attempted in Warsaw by Colonel Slawek. What he has done is to make a tolerably neat system out of the loose ends of Marshal Pilsudski's erratic and unsystematic but popular and effective Military Dictatorship...
...Pilot Carmichael will probably go the Air Mail Fliers' Medal, first awarded to Northwest Airlines' Mai Freeburg in 1932 for a similar feat...
...Louis Cardinals are eight competent big-league baseball players and Jerome Herman ("Dizzy") Dean who, after doing more than anyone else to win the pennant and the World Series last year, was last week busily engaged in announcing to the U. S. how he plans to accomplish the same feat again...