Word: featness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...physicists who accomplished the feat were Nobel Prizewinner Jean Frédéric Joliot, son-in-law of the late Marie Curie (see p. 24), L. Kowarski, H. von Halban Jr., E. Perrin. Details of the experiment were meagre: apparently they split uranium atoms in such a way that a lot of neutrons flew out-entirely too many to be accounted for as the result of the first fissions. Some of the neutrons must have been products of secondary and tertiary fissions. After that the reaction was too weak to continue. But it was obvious that the release...
...height of the craze which led college students to swallow goldfish, mice, worms and other spectacular inedibles, a Stanford student swallowed a specimen Triturus. Until last week the young man did not realize how lucky he had been. Since he did not even get sick after his feat, the downed Triturus must have been a male or an eggless female...
...fame as a Cincinnati political reformer. At the urging of a classmate, Alma Murray, whom he eventually married, he got a woman elected to Cincinnati's school board for the first time, later helped clean up Cincinnati politics by drafting a new city-manager charter. His next big feat was to cut Ohio's budget from $86,000,000 to $48,000,000 as Governor George White's financial director. After a term as Supreme Court judge, he went to Harvard in 1935, was surprised last week to hear of his election. Ohio State was surprised...
...Hamburg-American liner St. Louis last week duplicated the Bremen's feat of eluding the British blockade, slipping safely down through Norwegian coastal waters into the Baltic and "a home port," from Murmansk. The 8,000-ton Johannlschulte, one of 16 other German refugees at Murmansk, was less lucky. In a blizzard and raging sea somewhere off Trondheim, she lost her propeller, foundered. Her crew of 36 was rescued by the Norwegian Queen Maud...
...performance of Bus Curwen was outstanding, for not only did he win the 220 and 440, but anchored the 440-yard relay team to victory almost immediately after finishing his 5:38.5 quarter-mile. It was an iron-man stunt reminiscent of Charlie Hutter's 100-220-440 feat against Yale in 1937. Curwen was under orders to loaf as much as possible in the first two events and in the final contest his teammates labored to hand him at least a two second margin over his opponent...