Word: featness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...expert on rockets and a student of them for many years, Professor Marks expressed his pleasure that leading rocket-ship fans have given up their ideas of reaching other celestial bodies. "It's about time," he remarked. "Man will never achieve such a feat as flying to the moon...
...captain of the midget sub who performed the feat of penetrating harbor nets and mapping Battleship Row got the identities of the U.S. warships all wrong, put many of them at the wrong moorings...
...going to knock on wood . . . because it is still in the experimental stage." New York City's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, on his weekly broadcast, then announced that the city's Public Health Research Institute had succeeded in immunizing laboratory animals against certain kinds of malaria parasites, a feat many experts believed impossible...
...Philadelphia's Lying-in Hospital last week. So did a pediatrician and four assistants. Some of the doctors around Mrs. Joseph Cirminello, an SEC secretary, were merely spectators. But many were needed, because Mrs. Cirminello was being delivered of quadruplets by Caesarean section under spinal anesthesia-a feat unique in medical history. The operation was done six weeks before the normal birth date because the doctors thought that waiting would endanger the lives both of the mother and her brood. The obstetrician in charge: Dr. John Calvin Ullery of Upper Darby...
...spoke the august London Times last week of the feat of U.S. Army Lieut. Samuel ("Sammy") Wallace Magill, who, with only 30 men, captured 20,000 Germans and their general in France (TIME. Sept 25). Continued the Times: "The pity is that the exact psychological method . . . remains for the moment uncertain...