Word: featness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...publicize his ball-point pens. Last week, he went about as far as he could go-around the world, faster than anyone had ever gone before. As an advertising and promotional stunt, Milt Reynolds' record-breaking flight was well worth the $175,000 it cost. As a flying feat of luck and endurance, it was even more notable...
...Eagles played errorless ball--no mean feat in a college game--and managed to touch Ira Godin, who went the distance for the Crimson, for eight timely hits, seven of which contributed to their scoring. Don O'Brien, BC's right-handed pitcher, limited Coach Dolph Samborski's squad to five blows, and was effectively cool throughout the proceedings...
...attempt to drag in poor old James Monroe as a co-sponsor of aid to Greece [TIME, March 24] was a rather remarkable feat. I looked up what the Monroe Doctrine says with regard to Europe, and this is it: "Our policy in regard to Europe, which was adopted at an early stage of the wars which have so long agitated that quarter of the globe, nevertheless remains the same, which is, not to interfere in the internal concerns of any of its powers...
...Craig Gilbert got hold of a good historical triangle in the Miles Standish-Priscilla Mullins-John Alden business, molded assorted Pilgrims and Indians into some stock but sound musical comedy characters, and came through with a creation that manages not to sag between the songs, which is no small feat. Nor do the songs delay the action of the book. Both come together into a balanced musical that is played with the sort of informal enthusiasm that can make a good amteur show more entertaining than all but the best of professional shows...
...price paid for the simplified language of 850 words--as against a King's English total of 414,000 words in the current Oxford English dictionary -- was called "insignificant in view of the prodigious powers Basic possesses, and the enormous feat on the part of its inventor...