Word: featly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Homeric Feat. Born in Belmont, Mass., and educated at Brown ('17), Homer once worked as a 13?-an-hour lathe operator during summer vacation. It was as a World War I Navy lieutenant and pioneer submariner that he caught the eye of Bethlehem management at the company's shipyard in Quincy, Mass. After the war, he moved up at flank speed in Bethlehem Ship, became vice president in charge of it in 1940. During World War II, his 200,000-man force turned out 1,127 ships, from landing craft to aircraft carriers, a Homeric feat unequaled...
...Scripps-Howard reporter named Herbert Roslyn Ekins won a race around the world on commercial aircraft by finishing his trip in a little more than 18 days. For that uncomplicated era his was a respectable feat; by rights it should have earned Ekins permanent registry in journalism's memory book. But when "Bud" Ekins died last week at 62, and his death was engraved on obituary pages from coast to coast, it reminded most readers, who had long forgotten him, of one of his competitors whom he beat back to New York by a comfortable six days. Her name...
Running "California style" in white hat and sun glasses, the sophomore from Palo Alto broke the Franklin Park course record by 52 seconds Tuesday against a weak Boston University squad. His feat was made even more spectacular by the fact that he had warmed up by running the eight miles from Dillon Field House to Franklin Park...
...M.G.H. and Brigham doctors were not discouraged. The attempt to save Bingel, helped by a widow's understanding, had been a noteworthy feat of medical and surgical cooperation. It failed, said Dr. Moore, "because all transplant patients face the problem of the organ's getting used to its new host-the host and the liver have to learn to live together." Renewed attempts to teach them to live together were certain to be made soon. Even as Joseph Bingel died, a gathering of transplant experts convened in Washington to figure out improved methods of increasing those chances...
Coach Victor Fusia, who was hired two years ago as part of a move to emphasize football, occasionally admits that the Yankee Conference championship might be as important as a win over Harvard, but it is certain that he thinks the latter feat a pre-requisite for respectability...