Word: featly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago, as the Veterans of Future Wars did in 1936. In Withington's room in Holworthy Hall one night last month conversation turned on his aquarium. Freshman Withington boasted that he had once eaten a goldfish. A classmate remarked it would be worth $10 to see the feat repeated. Thereupon young Withington seized one of his pets by the tail, popped it into his mouth, chewed well, won his reward...
Three weeks later Franklin and Marshall's Frank Pope Jr. belittled this feat by salting, peppering and swallowing three goldfish. Unlike Mr. Withington, Mr. Pope did not chew...
Cunningham's feat encouraged Dartmouth to try again. Last week the middle-distance flash of the season, Negro Portrait Painter & Student John Borican of Columbia University, who week before had jumped the gun to beat Glenn Cunningham in Manhattan in the fastest 1,000 yards ever run, went to Dartmouth to see how fast he could run 800 meters and the half-mile (880 yards). Spaced out to pace him were four Dartmouth runners with handicaps of from 10 to 95 yards. Careful was Borican this time to be off with the gun and not before. He turned...
...really sensational feat of the evening was provided by Princeton's incorrigibly fast medley team. Breaking its own American and unofficial world's record for the 12 laps. Al Van de Weghe, Dick Hough, and Hank Van Oss turned in the unbelievable time of 2:51.9. It is calculated that Van de Weghe did his 100 in 59.2, Hough the breastroke leg in 59.3, and Van Oss the free-style century in 53.4 to hang up a record that is likely to stand for many years...
...know. But he is a hero in Japan; his two residences-the consulate at Shimoda and the legation at Tokyo are preserved as shrines. The first U. S. Consul General to Japan, Townsend Harris in 1858 negotiated the first effective commercial treaty between the U. S. and Japan-a feat which historians have ranked with the world's leading diplomatic successes...