Word: featly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...president and sent him off to Europe to salvage what he could of the multimillion trust funds it had been required to set up in banks to guarantee its policies. Though the assets of many of the banks had been confiscated by warring armies, Parkinson retrieved the funds, a feat that brought him the society's vice-presidency in 1925, its presidency 2½ years later. He has since nearly tripled its sales, boosted its assets from less than $1 billion to more than $6 billion...
...Lima surgeons' feat was no idle trick. For years they had studied ancient skulls, instruments and bandages, and had practiced using the museum relics in autopsies. After their first use on a live patient, Dr. Grańa was delighted. The operation proved, he said, that the ancients' tools and methods were as good as the moderns', and in some ways perhaps better. For the future, he foresaw wider use of the tourniquet bandage, which had given him an almost bloodless field of operation. And he thinks another pre-Inca wrinkle may prove useful: flexible bronze needles...
...relief, they congratulated him on his feat and went on, without even demanding the traditional champagne bounty. Colcord recovered from his next shot into the woods to finish the round...
...Virginia Water, England, Britain's Ryder Cup golfers almost got the cup back from a defending team of U.S. pros -a feat which would have meant the first British victory in six tries, 20 years. Two missed short putts made the difference. The U.S. team, captained by Lloyd Mangrum, hung on to the cup again, 6½ points...
Writes Sir Heneage in the Practitioner: "It would not be a particularly difficult feat...to produce quite a convincing thesis that the present lackadaisical outlook of the country, so repeatedly castigated by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, is a symptom of chronic [barbiturate] intoxication...