Word: featly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What U. S. dog performed the most heroic feat during the past six months? The Spratt's Dog Food Co. wanted to know for publicity reasons and to award a gold medal. Last week the judges reached decision...
...Fierro, cool, cautious, conservative, after days of patient preparation, took off from Roosevelt Field, L. I. and 16 hr. 35 min. later landed on Valbuena Field, Mexico City-first non-stop flight from New York to the Mexican capital.* Mexico was delirious with joy, not alone over the actual feat, but also because the pall of misfortune hanging over Mexican aviation had been pierced...
Whether or not Dr. Einstein has that accomplished as a laboratory feat, he accompanied his introduction of Solid Space with a rhetorical flourish which will doubtless confuse students for years to come. Meaning merely that Space had at last come into its own as the ultimate reality, he exclaimed: "Space is now having its revenge, so to speak, and is eating up Matter...
Discovery of Alexander's bones would be an outstanding feat of modern archeology, would make the discovery of Tutankhamun appear as a child's beach digging. If the body of Alexander is found beneath the Mosque it will not go to any foreign museum but will remain where it has been for tens of centuries. Thus reads Professor Breccia's contract...
...Darwin, Australia, a national heroine. Three days behind the record of Harold J. L. ("Bert") Hinkler, Miss Johnson's 11,500-mi. flight in a little secondhand, patched-up airplane, over perilous terrain and sharky waters, with an infected hand and short on sleep, was yet an amazing feat. Said she at Surabaya, Java, before starting across the Timor Sea: "The less I think of this, the better I know this last stretch will be the biggest fright of my life. . . . Oh, you don't know that forlorn feeling-above you, a grim black sky; underneath, the revolving...