Word: feats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...solar compasses, data on flying conditions in frigid air and over snow-covered terrain. He warmly complimented the men under him on their courage and discipline, citing Mechanic Bennett's heroism in climbing out on a wing to prevent a cold-clogged oil tank from bursting, the joint feat of changing three 900-lb. Liberty motors with improvised equipment, and the readiness of all the men to fly over Ellesmere Land "where a forced landing meant 'curtains' [i. e. dropped curtains-Death]." Pilot Earl Reber of the NA-3, despite an attack of stomach ulcers that kept...
...field work, coaches declared, had not been paralleled in the last decade. Last year, in the first twelve minutes of a game against Michigan, he made four runs of from 45 to 90 yards each. At the kickoff he raced from his goal-line to score a touchdown, a feat which has been accomplished only eleven times in history. During the Michigan game he handled the ball 21 times, gained 355 yards. In the last two years he has taken the ball 244 times, gained 2,424 yards?an average of almost 10 yards per start. This fall he captains...
...that few men would have cared to leap from it, still fewer to leap from it entwined about someone else, still fewer if their bones were old and their years numbered over 70. Yet two curmudgeons-Sir Claude Champion de Crespigny, 78, and Otto Hagburgh, 71-lately performed this feat in England. The London Times' photo showed then in midair...
...like a baseball player's, a panama and an eloquent watch-fob. On the first hole the tall man drove into the woods. He did not swear; only a tyro begins swearing on the first hole. Instead, he took an iron and got out on the fairway. This successful feat appeared somewhat to excite him. He took three putts on the green, and a caddy wrote 6 on his scorecard. Watch Fob was one up. On Hole 2, Watch Fob put his approach up behind a tree, and his clumsy attempt to bunt it onto the the green gave...
...contrast as a feat of news-gathering was the publication of income tax payments by the newspapers. The extreme example of efficiency in this respect was probably attained by The New York Times, At 9.30 one morning income tax collectors turned over to the press, books full of names, addresses, amounts, unarranged, unclassified. At each office in New York City, the Times had a battery of stenographers, each group supervised by a reporter. All New York City tax payments of $500 or more were copied. In addition the telegraph wires brought in all tax payments of more than...