Word: featness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Daly not only faced the best talent that Harvard had to offer but attempted the sizeable feat to taking it all on at once. Four tables were set up in the form of a square, leaving a space inside for the state champion as he matched wits with 15 students, each with a separate chess board and lined up along the outside edges of the tables...
...situation last week was whether the railroads can step their oil deliveries to the East up another 200,000 barrels a day, average 1,000,000 barrels a day through the winter. Railroad men were sure they could, and oilmen agreed that such a feat-when & if achieved-would make fuel-oil rationing unnecessary...
...Grew, a young Boston-Groton-Harvard-man, crawled into a cave in China and shot a tiger just four feet in front of him. This feat so impressed Theodore Roosevelt that, although he was leary of Boston snobbery in the diplomatic service, he appointed Joe Grew clerk to the consul general in Cairo...
...months or less and it could be in maximum production at ten months or less." Kaiser's proposal sounded fantastic, but the U.S. has learned better than to scoff at the production promises of the man who built Boulder Dam in record time, and whose latest feat has been to cut the time for a Victory ship to one-sixth of the average for World War I freighters...
...produced 20 per cent more per capita than in the 1920's, a feat which, according to Hansen, has given us a new idea of our production capabilities. At the present time our supply of civilian durable goods on hand is sufficiently great, he said, that even if we should cease their manufacture and apply our energies entirely to industrial production, we could live almost as well...