Word: featness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stout rivals and finishing the awesome four-mile course in 8 min., 44 4/5 sec.; near Baltimore. Having won the Grand National and My Lady's Manor point-to-points on two previous Saturdays, Janney & Winton made a grand slam of Maryland's famed hunt races-a feat never before accomplished...
...other articles perform the Guardian's usual feat of clarifying the issues without bringing the solution any nearer. Of the two undergraduate authors, Jerry Brown, '44, has done the better job. His "Mcdicine for the Masses" is a clear and orderly exposition of the problems and definitions involved, but the conclusion cannot be termed either novel or startling. Richard Weinberg's "Paying for the War" contributes little. The leading article of the issue, General Arnold's three- and-one-half page dissertation on "The College Man in Aviation," is a hodge-podge of personal reminiscences, a muddy description of life...
...Girdler had set the first bomber assembly line in motion-no mean feat even for a company rich in aircraft experience. Detroit will draw on his experience. Its feat will be that, having started from scratch a few months ago, it will soon duplicate and reduplicate the deeds of the aircraft industry-if-the Great If-the U.S. maintains a steady flow of materials into the enormous rooms...
...gets away with the feat in the best Howard manner: a polished, guileless, casual, sweet performance-restrained, incredible, a screen Englishman...
...dint of some ingenious rewriting, and considerable skating on thin ice, Hollywood has produced a version of Kings Row which retains that novel's main outlines without arousing the censors. This is no mean feat, since the book bore down on sadism, incest and assorted abnormalities so heavily that its liberal admixture of seduction seemed a welcome note of normalcy. Although the grislier aspects have been glossed over prettily in deference to the family trade, the picture is still moderately worth-while entertainment...