Word: feats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great many rather unlovely characters of history have been compared to Nero, but that President Coolidge should be spoken of in the same breath with the ill-famed Emperor seemed, until last week, almost incredible. The feat was performed, however, by Editor Basil M. Manly of People's Business, a journal which voices the views of LaFollette Progressives...
...propellers and hopping aviators have, during the last fortnight, brought the Hawaiian Islands into front page headlines of U. S. newspapers. First came the flight of Lieutenants Maitland and Hegenberger (TIME, July 11). Last week Civilians Smith and Bronte fell just short of duplicating the Army airmen's feat (see p. 28). Thus almost every U. S. citizen, reasonably literate, knows that the Hawaiian Islands are some 2,400 miles west of San Francisco and are so situated as to form an excellent target for far-flying aviators...
...brother E. C. Stevens, headmaster of a Denver school. Also he was revisiting the scene of his engineering apprenticeship. So in his annual address to the Society he permitted himself to touch upon part of the "routine business" of his own career. This part was not his feat of discovering Stevens Pass through the Cascade Mountains for the Great Northern R. R., or any part of his pioneer work for the Canadian Pacific R. R., or any of his experiences as chief of the War-time board to improve trans-Siberian travel. His talk was about the Panama Canal...
...soon as news was flashed that Flyer Byrd and comrades had come down there. Mr. Forrest was alert and daring enough to get a commercial pilot to whisk him off to the coast through the stormy night so that he arrived before any of his competitor-colleagues. Of this feat, said the Herald Tribune's unconventional editorial last week: "Just what a foreign correspondent ought to be is Mr. Wilbur Forrest . . . Wherever trouble is brewing or news is breaking he has the habit of being first on the spot ... It is work like his which has given the Herald...
...smother with its excess every possible husband. It is a need of such unusual and innocent intensity that Alma's story, much of it in broken English, hovers constantly between the exquisite and the absurd. To dare this hovering was a brave thing and Author Fuller's feat of bringing Alma credibly through from naive immigrant to disillusioned but still saintly New England housekeeper, is a remarkable one. Her repeated rejections, by men so various as Niels, a brutish fellow immigrant, and Eric Rasmussen, a now prosperous childhood friend in distant Walla Walla; her capture of a paralytic...