Word: featly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...issue of TIME rescued me from the hands of the Communist police of the Russian zone of Germany. I feel, now that I am once again on free ground, that I owe it to you to let you know how your publication was responsible for this rather extraordinary feat. Rescue often comes to the "children of light" from very unexpected sources, and I must say TIME was a rather unlikely candidate for the job at the time...
...winning, Terry equalled the feat achieved by B.U.'s John Kelly last year. Most observers in Boston have felt all year that Terry will surpass Kelly's cross country and track achievements before he graduates. Terry was undefeated this fall, including a first place in a triangular meet with Harvard and Providence which the Crimson...
...powerful Big Red, which finished its dual meet season with only one less, that to perennially strong Syracuse, placed three men in the first seven, a rare feat in a championship meet. Don Farley was fourth, and Paul Loberg was seventh...
Hippo minded as St. Louis may be, the outlook for another animal in Boston is very dim. Happy passed from the municipal scene with hardly a ripple--quite a feat for a hippo. Now that he is gone, no one doubts he was a good hippopotamus, but nobody wants another. Several years ago, Mayor Hines, his eye on the hay bill, vetoed the idea of another hippo--not out of fondness for Happy--but because the breed ate too much. Only among his old friends, the Franklin Park keepers, is Happy still remembered as, "The Hippopotamus." As one keeper said...
...British parent. Then, from a group of U.S. insurance companies and banks (led by Morgan Stanley and J. P. Morgan & Co.), Bowater was able to borrow $45 million to provide the rest of the financing. They were willing to lend the money only because of another Bowater feat. He had signed a contract with more than 100 Southern publishers, under which they agreed to buy the mill's entire newsprint output for the next 15 years. With that accomplished, it was comparatively easy for Bowater to get a "certificate of necessity" (required during the Korean war) from the Government...