Word: featly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...place of the extant unstable system of appointment, the Report recommends the substitution of a three-years term for all full-time appointees. Such a measure would eliminate the threat of dismissal which instructors must now feat at the close of each semester; the resulting increase in stability of working conditions could not help but produce a higher standard of work. As a corollary to this three-year plan, the Union urges that the University decide the question of permanent appointment after an instructor's eighth year of service. A definite policy to the appointees and to the department...
...previous Cantab record of 27 was disputed by a Vassar Sophomore recently who claimed to have disposed of all of 29, but Curtiss' feat neatly eclipses those of both disputants...
Taken up on an ill-considered boast. Lothrop Withington '42 is faced with the prospect of downing a live goldfish in the Union at 6:30 o'clock tonight. Three freshman friends of Withington not believing it possible have offered him $10 for the feat and tickets will be sold to pay for tomorrow's show...
...many memorials to Pope Pius XI, dead last week, least famed but most lofty perhaps is the Ratti Route, an Alpine trail on the way from Chamonix to the top of Mont Blanc (15,781 ft.), so named to commemorate the feat of Achille Ratti and a fellow priest, Monsignor Luigi Grasselli, two of the most adventurous mountain climbers in Italian history, who first blazed the trail in 1890. Another monument to the Pope's Alpine enthusiasm: a stone tablet in a little church at Macugnaga, at the foot of Monte Rosa, celebrating the first conquest of its highest...
...shame the heavy-tackle anglers who think they have accomplished something when they land a tarpon with 24-thread line, but also went on record as the outstanding achievement of this year's 99-day Miami Fishing Tournament. Deep-sea angling experts could not remember a more remarkable feat in Atlantic waters...