Word: feats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This ancient, able, angular seer of baseball, who shares managerial honors with John J. McGraw of the New York Giants, led his Philadelphia club to its first American League pennant in 1902. He repeated the feat in 1905, 1910, 1911, 1913, 1914. At the conclusion of the 1914 campaign, he found that his winning habits had had a deadening, unprofitable effect on his public. Philadelphians were sure that Mack's team would win; were spending their money to witness sports in which the element of chance was more noticeable...
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...away is the day when a Francis Bacon could take "all knowledge" for his "province" and not be speedily committed to a private hospital. What, for example, could even semi-encyclopaedic newsgatherers make of "the purification of colloids by electro-dialysis," the feat which Guggenheim money will aid Dr. Richard Bradfield, soil professor at the University of Missouri to accomplish? Dr. William Henry Eyster's project, at the University of Maine, to study "the physiology of chloroplastid pigments," was equally inscrutable. And why should Dr. Ralph Erskine Cleland of Goucher College be given money to pry into "the chromosome...
...mothers overflow with pride when their infant sons begin to toddle across the room from chair to chair at the tender age of ten months. Last week in Chicago, little Harmon Loeb, aged five weeks, walked unaided across a room. Dr. Carl Loeb sees in his son's feat no miracle, says.: "We bathe Harmon every day for ten or fifteen minutes in ultraviolet rays [which] help the blood absorb the calcium in food, thereby building bone. The baby is given a series of exercises three times a day designed to strengthen the muscles . . . sleeps on a bread board...
...Augean stables. (He also captured the man-eating Mares of Diomedes and did many another difficult feat...