Word: featness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...expert was not somewhere around. Lou Diamond's age is a secret between him and his service-record book, but his friends remember his pitching a one-hit game for the Quantico Marines many years ago, when he must have been at least 50. He rested on that feat, never pitched again...
Anybody dozing at last week's Congressional tax hearings (an easy feat) might have picked up some startling impressions between cat naps. Testifying before the House Ways & Means Committee was the Treasury's neat, mild-mannered General Counsel Randolph Paul. In view of the Treasury's last-ditch opposition to the famed Ruml income tax plan, some of Mr. Paul's statements were enough to make anyone sit up. Said...
Navy communiqués have not yet credited Army bombers with sinking the battleship but other sources have verified it as "one of the great air stories of the war," a feat of one Bombardment Group (designation secret). It was the high mark in the crack battle record of that group and its Flying Fortresses. From their arrival on Guadalcanal in August until November, they had met the enemy 500 times, shot down 113 Jap planes, destroyed 13 more on the ground...
...more amphibious than they. By the time he was 15 he was picked for a team to represent the Canal Zone in an international swimming meet in South America. Last year, as a student at Mercersburg Academy, he caused a sensation by equaling Weissmuller's record-a feat accomplished by only three other U.S. swimmers (Peter Fick, Bill Prew, Howard Johnson...
Barnes' 440 feat was accomplished in 5:08.3, just half-a-second better than the previous record of Bill Delima '31. The 220 record time was 2:22.4. No other Crimson swimmer was entered in either event...