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Word: feats (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most unusual feat of the Saturday afternoon was Myles Lane's at Dartmouth. As his team defeated Allegheny 38-7 he made two touchdowns in one minute. After smashing through for a touchdown in the third period, he caught the kick-off and sprinted 90 yards for another score...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football Matches: Oct. 17, 1927 | 10/17/1927 | See Source »

...attends the current production of "Everyman" at the Fine Arts Theatre, can fail to be impressed by the sincerity of its presentation. It is a difficult feat to put on a Fifteenth Century miracle play and achieve any suggestion of the effect which it must have had upon the audiences for which it was intended. In producing this effect, the reviewer believes, Miss Wycherly and her company have attained a surprising success...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 10/14/1927 | See Source »

...been a fleet street newspaper man for a decade. Back in 1910 he accompanied an expedition to explore the further reaches of the Amazon. In the tramp steamer "The Capella", the party penetrated to the last thousand miles of the tropical river, which was the first time the feat had been accomplished. Tomlinson told the story in his "Sea and the Jungle", which appeared in 1910 and the first editions of which are now selling at $75 a copy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNION TO HEAR SPEAKER KNOWN AS ENGLISH CONRAD | 10/11/1927 | See Source »

...next feat, perhaps the most spectacular and sensational of all, was when Ostheimer and Fuhrer spent 36 hours without rest in climbing four peaks from the Columbia Ice-field, one of which, the North Twin, was over 12,000 feet. The party left camp one morning at 1 o'clock and returned after many hours of hardship on the ice, having used flash-lights to guide their steps during the night. It was the first complete ascent to the ice-field from the Athabaska valley...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THIRTY PEAKS SCALED BY UNDERGRADUATE EFFORTS | 10/1/1927 | See Source »

...kick on his own 42 yard line and ran through a broken field for a touchdown. The University forwards, however, were offside on the play and the ball was brought back. W. B. Jones '28 went in for Brown and on the ensuing exchange of kicks repeated Brown's feat by carrying the pigskin 48 yards for the final score of the scrimmage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRENCH STARS IN FIRST SCRIMMAGE | 9/29/1927 | See Source »

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