Word: featly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...school in Kent for several years, Authoress Beith has been living with her parents in Derbyshire, writing and discarding novels. Her family knew she liked to read Galsworthy, play lacrosse and tennis, but they never suspected she was a writer; when they read about her prize-winning feat in the newspapers they were struck all of a heap. Determined as well as secretive, Authoress Beith hurt the feelings of Publisher Stokes's press agent by refusing a formal presentation of her prize. Only thing she would say about her writing: that she took it up "to take my mind...
...possibility of a Maxwell-quantum equation. Dr. Einstein could have used it as part of his Unified Field Theory coordinating the laws of electromagnetism, gravity and, light, which he succeeded in expressing mathematically, only to discard the expression when flaws were detected. At first blush Professor Born's feat of cerebral acrobatics seems to hold real promise of help to Dr. Einstein in rebuilding the Unified Field Theory, to which he expects to devote the rest of his life...
...Clarence ("Buster"') Crabbe, who are tall, ingenuous and shaggy at the ears. Crabbe has an advantage over Weissmuller in that he looks even less capable of speech. When he pats Jacqueline Wells on the chest in the last reel and says "That . . . mine. . . ." audiences should find this a feat of intellectual gymnastics even more exciting than his exploits upon vine-trapezes...
...cool out. But not without accolade was Bonny Bonthron. Though he had suffered his first collegiate defeat he, too, had broken the previous world's record by .5 sec. and after an hour's rest his brawny, black-haired legs were strong enough for another feat: he ran the half-mile...
...locks) asked him to peruse their books, promptly made him treasurer. In 1911 he went to Studebaker in the same capacity, was soon jumped to president of the company which Harry and Clement Studebaker, wagon makers, had founded in 1852. President Erskine rode the 1921 deflation unharmed, a managerial feat cited in many a textbook. And in this depression President Erskine made money until 1932. Then he tried to swing the biggest motor merger of the year- purchase of White Motor Co. (trucks). Studebaker borrowed to finance the deal, but a few White stockholders prevented Studebaker from taking title...