Word: featness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...comes from St. Louis, where he was "pretty well irresistible to juries." Handsome, young (39) Clark Clifford was commissioned a lieutenant (j.g.) in the Navy. He never went to sea, but he wound up two years later as naval aide to the President and a four-stripe captain, a feat which ordinarily takes Annapolis graduates around 20 years. Six weeks ago he became the President's special counsel, the job vacated by shrewd, veteran judge & lawyer Sam Rosenman. Everyone agrees that Clark Clifford, who is "perfectly devoted" to Harry Truman, has a way with Harry Truman...
...Tarawa last week TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod came upon a story oj incredible human endurance, the saga of a Gilbert Islands native who sailed 2,000 miles across the lonesome stretches of the South Pacific in a canoe. Nabetari's feat, unequaled in the lore of oceanic survival, has been officially confirmed. The story that follows is a simple English version prepared for translation into Gilbertese, which has only a 400-word vocabulary...
Right-hander Phelan, who has two wins for the season against two losses, will be attempting to repeat Johnny Knowles' feat in the first contest when he held Brown to two hits in the five and a half innings that were played before rain interfered...
...villains in this afternoon's cinder-feat will be three in number, by the titles of Dartmouth, Pennsylvania and Yale. The fact that Yale was disposed of last Saturday in a dual meet is no indication that they will be easy pickings for the others today...
Sports coverage of the Princeton baseball game on May 30, 1892 gave students a taste of future Crimson initiative when the crowds returning from the game were greeted by the paper's first sports extra. The feat was accomplished by relays of local kids on bicycles who caught copy dropped to them from the bleachers and rushed it to the printer...