Word: featly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University of Washington eleven. This game marked the dedication of the Washington University stadium which seats close to 75,000 people. The Hanover eleven defeated the coast team in a very close and hard fought contest, 27-7, and again this year they will attempt to repeat this feat, against Stanford University however, instead of the Washington Huskies...
...Judge Baumgarten (except when fiddling with one of his ears) is a sight awesome as Olympian Jove. Boldly to face the justice down, to use the Supreme Court dome as a demagog's thumping tub, to hurl from dem Reichsgericht a defy which reverberated throughout Europe, such was the feat last week of Adolf Hitler, No. I Brown Shirt Fascist (TIME...
...great feat of logic to perceive that good teaching probably does not obtain unless the is a strong faculty. Furthermore, it should be obvious that money is necessary to build up, even to maintain a great faculty. In the past six years and in the next two, Harvard will have disbursed over $30,000,000 towards the improvement of her buildings. It is time to ask a question of vital importance to the University. When is provision going to be made to insure a corresponding advance in the quality of Harvard's faculty...
...director, later managing director. When War Finance Corp. lapsed in 1920, Mr. Meyer successfully argued for its resurrection and continuance, was reappointed by President Harding. Through it he loaned some $690,000,000 to deflated husbandry, got it all back, plus $64,000,000 in interest -an unparalleled feat. With War Finance Corp.'s liquidation in 1927, President Coolidge appointed Mr. Meyer to the Federal Farm Loan Board where as No. 1 Commissioner he continued his able work as banker and credit manager for U. S. Agriculture. Radical farm organizations grew to hate him because he would not give...
During the War, every order of steel, for any purpose, had to have his approval. In this capacity he performed many a notable feat, great among which was the lowering of the price of steel plate to 3¼? per pound against 12½? before government control. For his work he received the U. S. Distinguished Service Medal, awards from Italy, France, Belgium. He likes to recall that when the corset-makers came and begged for steel he refused their plea, thus helped change the line of fashion. In 1919 he organized Vanadium Corp. of America and Replogle Steel...