Word: featness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pandit ("Learned Brahman") Jawaharlal Nehru is a revolutionist, orator, humanitarian, philosopher, amateur swimmer. His book is 1) an extraordinary feat of intellectual gymnastics-most of it was written in torrid (112°) Indian prisons, where Author Nehru has spent about eight years for anti-British political activity; 2) a highly readable history of the world, with special emphasis on that part of it about which most Westerners know least-Asia...
Paul ("Big Poison") Waner of the Boston Braves may never land in Baseball's Hall of Fame. But in his home park . last week he got the 3,000th hit of his big-league career. In the long history of baseball, only six others have accomplished this feat. They are Ty Cobb, Tris Speaker, Honus Wagner, Eddie Collins, Napoleon Lajoie, and Pop Anson-Immortals...
...Miniver (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is that almost impossible feat, a great war picture that photographs the inner meaning, instead of the outward realism of World War II. Director William Wyler succeeds by the simple device of setting up an ideal middle-class English family in an ideal middle-class home, letting the Nazis knock both down. Result: what the Nazi bombers finally smash is not a house and household but (temporarily) man's hope of happiness...
Deeply moved, Orson Welles revised his script, now dedicated throughout to "An American Hero." Inspired by Jacare's feat, four messenger boys of the Telegrafo Nacional planned to walk the same distance from Fortaleza to Rio to ask President Vargas for a better wage. But what would have pleased Jacare most was that the first pension won for the jangadeiros by his efforts goes to his wife and nine children...
...Ewell, for the third year in a row, won the 100-yd. dash, 220-yd. dash and broad jump bringing his accumulation of Intercollegiate titles (indoors and out) to an even dozen, a feat no other track star has ever accomplished...