Word: featness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sumatra to buy pepper. This time he was part owner of his ship. One Christmas, in a driving snow storm, he sailed into Salem blind, except for a glimpse of the land at the mouth of the harbor. Then he sold the ship, never went to sea again. His feat became a New England legend. Actually it showed that he knew more about navigation than any other man of his time...
Outstanding for the home forces was Walter Hall, who captured both hurdle events. Ted Sparrow followed Hall's example by duplicating the feat against the Yardlings...
...buried deep under the avalanche of Far Eastern war news. It deserved a better fate. General Sir Archibald Wavell's victory over the Italians in Cyrenaica last year, which was hailed all over the Allied world, took 60 days. General Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck's feat, which was virtually ignored all over the world, was accomplished...
Averaging 70.3 strokes per round in 172 rounds of tournament golf is a feat Bobby Jones, Walter Hagen and every other fairway immortal would be proud to have accomplished. The golfer who has chalked up this incredible record is little Ben Hogan, a Texas-bred 135-pounder...
...best action stories of the war, when he (and the Illustrious) miraculously survived a savage, seven-hour attack of 50 Stukas and torpedo planes. Singed and blown down a hatchway, he stuck to the ship as it was bombed again at Malta. After that nervy feat of reporting, Rear Admiral Lyster declared that Allen was the "darling" of the British Mediterranean fleet...