Word: featly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many a brawny fisherman felt like a minnow last week as he read about the feat of a handsome Miami girl named Frances Laidlaw. With a 3-ounce bait-casting rod and a small bait-casting reel which held 85 yards of No. 6-thread linen line-about the same tackle appropriate to sporty bass fishing-loa-lb. Frankie Laidlaw had landed a tarpon weighing...
...West Concord, Harvard senior and member of last year's junior varsity crew, broke the Harvard ice cream record, downing no less than 27 dishes of peppermint stick ice cream smothered in chocolate sauce. At the Adams House dining hall, however, Mrs. Anne Jarrett, house hostess, denied the feat...
...Colles Stowell, who performed the amazing feat of taking three first places, Eliot ran up a huge total in first and second places. Stowell took firsts in the 50-yard free-style, the 100 yard free-style, and the back stroke...
...qualification to head the Department of Justice, the youngest (45) Cabinet member can point to studies at University of Michigan (law degree, 1914), Lincoln's Inn, London and Trinity College, Dublin. As a chief assistant U. S. District Attorney (1920-23), his greatest feat was sending two big Army grafters to prison. He served seven years (1923-30) on the bench of Detroit's Recorder's Court, handling criminal cases with the enlightening aid of a psychiatrist and a sociologist, his own innovation. In two terms as Detroit's mayor, three years as Governor-General...
...Thompson's record of 224 minutes, 47 seconds of play without a score being charged against his team. In ten games with the Bruins, nine of which they won, Rookie Brimsek had permitted only seven goals. But the latest addition to the Bruins was not inflated over his feat of two sets of triple shutouts. To reporters, taciturn Frankie Brimsek announced that the triples he liked most were triple features at the movies...