Word: featly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...successor. Treasurer Storer's faith and foresight led him to buy Continental Loan Certificates during these years of incredible inflation, and the Harvard history books single him out as one of the University's greatest heroes. Whether or not he saved the school from "hopeless bankruptcy," Storer's feat of raising the College's personal estate from $55,000 in 1777 to $182,000 some 16 years later was truly remarkable...
...California, at the Compton Relays, Kansan Wes Santee announced that he was about to run a 4:00.3 mile. Santee's feat was almost as big as his boast. Racing in a cold wind, he was clocked in 4:00.6, an American record, second only to English Roger Bannister's historic...
More than actual rowing prowess, the Crimson eight is spurred on by recalling last year's race, when it licked Navy's heels, a feat that has not been done before or after, at least not up to this Saturday's meeting...
Counsel Jenkins broke in with objections to McCarthy's line of questioning. The hearing room grew tense; spectators in the rear stood on tiptoe. Could Jenkins, untried in the Washington jungle, accomplish the feat of cutting Joe McCarthy off? Not without a struggle. Joe insisted on his right to show "prejudice" on the part of the witness. Samuel Reber, he said, had made "vicious attacks" on Cohn and Schine. That brought Arkansas' Democratic Senator John McClellan, as spiny and tough as any razorback, into the dispute. Said McClellan: "You are giving testimony. I have a right to object...
...successor. Treasurer Storer's faith and foresight led him to buy Continental Loan Certificates during these years of incredible inflation, and the Harvard history books single him out as one of the University's greatest heroes. Whether or not he saved the school from "hopeless bankruptcy," Storer's feat of raising the College's personal estate from $55,000 in 1777 to $182,000 some 16 years later was truly remarkable...