Word: featly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because of the large turnout this year, the squad has had to restrict its best boats to the fastest men. To make the squad, a candidate must row a four mile course in thirty minutes. This very feat, itself, according to Dennison, has encouraged a great many men to follow the sport...
Never averse to stealing a scene (or a hot stove, some say), Comic Oakie, who is beginning to look more and more like an American Indian, easily walks off with The Great American Broadcast. That is no feat. One tuneful ditty, I Take to You, some tasty hoofing by the Nicholas Brothers (colored), adequate vocalizing from blonde, lymphatic Alice Faye, are no match for the rustic mugging of an Oakie. Adept at using his nimble hands to take the action away from another cinemactor, he has a field day fiddling with the radio dials that clutter up The G.A.B...
Warren Berg, first-string pitcher, hurled good ball, but got little support from the pitches from the inexperienced infield. Sandy Macmillan, playing second base in today's game, duplicated his feat in the Wentworth contest last Saturday by pounding out a round-the-sacks clout to left field in the eighth inning...
Last week the Chinese War Ministry announced "the most brilliant military feat of the entire war," with the capture of the outposts of the city of Nanchang and the destruction of 20,000 out of 56,000 Japanese troops. But it was neither so brilliant nor so bold a victory as Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek won in his own capital, Chungking...
Smart, quiet Judge William Henry Hastie, dean of Howard University School of Law in Washington, who is Secretary of War Stimson's adviser on Negro affairs, engineered the formation of the 99th. Many Negroes applauded his feat, but many squawked. Their complaint: segregation of the 99th. Until Negro cadets went to the same air schools, joined the same squadrons that white fliers did, these fighters for race equality would consider it a Jim Crow Air Corps...