Word: featness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Major Quisling is to be congratulated. He has performed the rarish feat of turning a proper name into a common one, and in so doing has made sure that in a future life he will find himself in a distinguished circle. In addition to Captain Boycott, Aloysius Hansom will be there; also those two redoubtable Scots, Charles M. Macintosh and John Loudon McAdam; and the first Lord Brougham and the fourth Earl of Sandwich and the great Duke of Wellington in his famous boots...
Young Bob, with the poise and savvy of a seasoned oldtimer, had succeeded in pitching a no-hit, no-run game (1-to-0)-a feat that had not been accomplished in a big-league park since 1938 and had never before in the history of major-league baseball been accomplished on an opening...
Performing the difficult feat of shaking hands with everyone in Lowell House dining hall, Julian L. Coolidge '95, Master of Lowell House, celebrated a vigorous Easter yesterday...
...premature burst of pride, the Admiralty announced in London that the Elizabeth had reached a safe berth "across the Atlantic." This was the first intimation to most of the world that Q. E. had even left John Brown's Shipyard. Far more amazing, a far more admirable feat than Q. E.'s actual run was the secrecy which had blacked it out. Too many people knew it was coming off-families of the crew, some 2,000 Brown Shipyarders, the underwriters for Q. E.'s $18,000.000 insurance, Admiralty insiders, many thousands in firms under contract...
When he arrived in New York from his native Chile three months ago, Arturo Godoy was scarcely noticed by U. S. sportswriters. They remembered that he lad visited the U. S. twice before (in 1933 and 1937), that his greatest feat had been outroughing Tony Galento in a six-round preliminary bout on the Braddock-Louis championship card in June 1937. That he would not last four rounds against the Brown Bomber was the general prediction. Some openly complained that he had no right in the same ring with Louis, that his best punch could hardly knock down...