Word: featness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Editor Schoenberner's task was to keep Jugend youthful-a job he did so well that soon he was offered the editorship of Jugend's chief competitor, Simplicissimus. While Jugend hunted feverishly for a new editor, Schoenberner performed, the hilarious, exhausting feat of editing both weeklies at the same time. After reading and rejecting hundreds of manuscripts in the Jugend offices, he would speed over to Simplicissimus-only to find that the manuscripts he had just rejected had been sent out again to Simplicissimus...
...Tiquisate, on Guatemala's Pacific coast, United Fruit grows bananas the new way. On what were 25,000 acres of malarial wasteland in 1934, the company has kept 7,000 laborers busy at the sort of work that makes modern banana growing a feat of agricultural engineering. Example: from tall, movable towers giant sprinklers play over 3⅓ acres of banana trees in a swoop, supplying the equivalent of two inches of rainfall a week. A second complicated set of pumps and pipes squirts the bright blue Bordeaux mixture that keeps off the sigatoka disease...
Ever since Milo of Crotona, in the 6th Century B.C., lugged a four-year-old cow to a sacrificial altar, farm boys have been trying to duplicate his legendary feat. Rural jokesters long ago figured out how a man might lift better than his weight in beef. If a growing boy lifts a small calf, they say, and keeps lifting it day after day, why shouldn't the grown man eventually be able to lift the full grown cow? For the Borden Co.'s farm-flavored radio show, County Fair, the ancient gag looked good as new. Last...
Rough, Tough Army. But it was in Hungary that the reaction was strongest. There the moderate, non-Communist Small Holders' Party, which recently jolted the Communists in the Budapest municipal election, this week repeated its feat by a great victory in the national elections. The fact that Stalin's closest friend and adviser in the Red Army command, Marshal Klimenti Voroshilov, had been stationed there as the occupation chief attested the political importance of Hungary to the Russians...
...Grailo, Even Better Than the True Grail." Defying the "roaring . . . Tarcomed [and] the surly Nacilbuper" (The White Deer's proper nouns sometimes read best backwards). The Prince passed the Moaning Grove of Artanis and bested the famed Seven-headed Dragon. This wasn't really such a bold feat, because the Dragon ran by clockwork, and the Prince bribed the mechanic not to wind...