Word: featness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...benefit of motorists essaying junkets to Hanover for Saturday's Crimson-Indians clash, the CRIMSON's Travel and Excursion Editor has mapped out routes by which the feat can most conveniently be accomplished...
...success of this venture depends upon the number of people we can persuade to stay in their seats during the intermission," said Spear, calling for co-operation in performing not only a difficult feat, but also one of the few flash-card demonstrations on the East coast. "Little physical exertion and moderate discretion are all that are required for the desired effect," Spear concluded...
Lightning on a Lake. Webb & Knapp had not given promise of such a mickle feat in its earlier days. Operated for years by Ivy League sprouts (Groton's and Harvard's Elliot Cross, St. Paul's and Yale's John Hurst Purnell Gould, St. Mark's Henry Sears), the 24-year-old business was strong in contacts, weak on aggressiveness, barely managed to break even on servicing its exclusive clientele...
...Pauline, a friendly, attractive and aggressive American girl, is three-time winner of the U.S. Women's Singles. This week she will be out to win a fourth time-a feat that has been accomplished six times before.* Pauline is a trim 5 ft. 5; her hair is strawberry blonde, sun bleached and wiry. Principally because of her green eyes she seems to have a ready-to-pounce, feline quality. A straightening of her shoulders is a characteristic mannerism-a squaring away that seems to symbolize in an otherwise relaxed girl, a won't-be-beat spirit...
...even greater feat was attempted in Carnegie Hall in 1924 by a double threat musician named Paul Stassévitch, who fiddled through Brahms's Violin Concerto in D Major, then shifted to the keyboard for Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 in B Flat Minor. The critics shuddered...