Word: featly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Happy Landing has to do with a young man, not unlike Charles Augustus Lindbergh, who sets out on a transpacific flight. Just to make it more difficult, the playwrights have the journey begin at Old Orchard, Me. That such a feat could be accomplished without refueling is explained by having the heroine (Margaret Sullavan). mention "the new carburetor" with which the ship is equipped. When the youth gets back home he is, of course, a national hero. He lunches with the President, is made a colonel in the reserve flying corps and runs into a rich and comely lion-hunter...
...division of Music for the benefit of the Cambridge Chapter of the MacDowell Colony. The four acts to be presented are "The Two Beans", "A Korean Legend", "The Rabbit Ballet", and "The Punch and Judy Waltz". In "The Rabbit Ballet" four characters appear on the stage simultaneously, an unusual feat...
...proud that his machine cost him only $2,000 to build. President Compton of M. I. T. announced the immediate construction of a 15,000,000-volt x-ray tube and equipment to operate it. Building a tube strong enough to carry that tremendous energy is no great feat. General Electric's Dr. William David Coolidge built one for 900,000 volts. It is now being used to treat cancer in Manhattan's Memorial Hospital. Then there are Caltech's Dr. Charles Christian Lauritsen's for 1,200,000 volts, Carnegie Institution's Dr. Tuve...
...stocked a vessel with arms, took up piracy. Off the coast of Sarawak, rich province in northern Borneo, 800 mi. due east of Singapore, he stopped to rescue a beleaguered Sultan. The first thing the Sultan knew James Brooke was Raja of Sarawak. When Queen Victoria heard about his feat she knighted him. Present Raja, Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, is his grand-nephew...
...learned to do this curious feat during a fit of blubbering about three years ago. As he knuckled his tearful eyes he felt them gliding out of their sockets. That scared everybody who saw him. So he repeated the stunt, soon learned to pop without aid of his fingers by skillfully working his eye muscles...