Word: feats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...billiard room. Now those billiard rooms have been turned into breakfast rooms, gun rooms, dens. Billiards, no longer smart, is played and watched now only by people who really like it. In no sport except championship golf is there the same concentration of spectators on a delicate feat of skill, the success of which depends entirely on nervous control-as when, in a room filled with smoke, and banked on four sides by retreating slopes of intense watching faces, a billiard player in a stiff shirt and evening waistcoat, bending in a pour of white light over a green table...
...Optimists. As a result the Crimson riders are favored to reach the finals. Yale is expected to be Harvard's most dangerous opponent, since having defeated Princeton in an early season match by a large score, 18 to 7, the Blue horsemen may be counted upon to duplicate this feat...
...editors of the CRIMSON regret that the issue of yesterday was slightly late in reaching its subscribers. The annual feat of spiriting away the first edition to be run off the presses, made a second issue necessary, and this naturally caused some delay yesterday...
Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh has not flown from England to Australia in a series of hops lasting 15 days. That feat was performed by Australian Aviator Harold ("Bert") Kinkier. Last week, at Canberra the new Capital of Australia, a renowned British financier compared the feats of "Lindy" with those of "Bert...
...Governor, in 1911 and 1912. He rose to that office from the comparatively humble positions of postmaster at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. (1889-93), then Michigan game & fish warden, then commissioner of railroads, then regent of the University of Michigan. What made Michiganders admire him much was his great feat as a mining engineer-the discovery of the Moose Mountain iron range in Canada. Brawny, brainy, he made a good public servant-Georgia's claim to Chase Salmon Osborn is that he usually winters near Albany, Ga., where his estate is known as " 'Possum Poke on 'Possum...