Word: featness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York City invented in 1929 and has since developed a Naval War Game which actually approximates sea war. One night in 1939 the players looked at each other and whistled. Three light ships had just sunk the German pocket battleship, the Admiral Graf Spee, a supposedly impossible feat. But their calculations showed it could be done-and they were not so much surprised as vindicated when the Graf Spee actually got her comeuppance in just that way six months later off Brazil...
Sirs: You say (TIME, Nov. 16) that General Doolittle "was first to span the continent in a single day." Is that statement correct? ... I rely on memory alone; but it has been my understanding that about 20 years ago the feat credited to General Doolittle was accomplished by Earl Maughan. . . . Let credit be awarded to the one who earned...
With the help of 17 paying subscribers he has slowly boosted his little paper into the profit stage, a feat to make any red-ink-stained publisher gape. Last week Alvin was grossing "about 90? a week, barely enough to buy materials...
Funniest sequel to the discovery was an attempt by the Japanese to annex the nova. CBS's short-wave listening station heard Tokyo announce that a Japanese amateur astronomer, Shiaki Nakihava, had first sighted the new star. The Japanese called his feat "one of the greatest events in science." Then they located the nova in the wrong constellation (Canis Major instead of Puppis...
Although only ending in a tie for fourth by means of a last half season spurt, Eliot was next in line for honors with two all-stars. In the first year that the House league has been open to Freshmen, the Class of '46 did the creditable feat of placing four men and one alternate on the squad, beating out '44 by only one man on the first team but far out-distancing the other classes...