Word: feats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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London bankers and British Government officials are, for this reason, looking ahead to the coming autumn season with considerable anxiety. Thus far it has not been so much of a feat to keep sterling at its gold par with the dollar. But the real test of Chancellor of the Exchequer Churchill's bold step in resuming gold payments this spring (TIME, May 11, COMMONWEALTH) will come this fall. Hitherto, Britain has not been forcd by her assumption of the full gold standard to export much gold -in fact, if anything, she has imported the yellow metal on balance from...
...great feat had been performed and great hardships had been endured and the heroes were home from the wastes, home with a story...
Whatever the complaints about Cambridge weather, it cannot be accused of monotony. A change from tropical, blazing heat to the usual coolness of a New England spring is no slight feat for a single afternoon. And it has driven the persecuted Cantabrigians to acrobatic changes of raiment; at one moment, clothes as close to nothingness as decorum permitted; an hour later sweaters and topcoats had recovered their usual prestige as necessities in combating the climate. Yesterday, collapses, faintings under the relentless torridity; tomorrow, beggars will probably be found frozen on the streets...
Before his career at Harvard began last year, Whitbeck had already attracted the attention of followers of the courts game in the East. As a student at Loomis, where he prepared for the University, Whitbeck thrice carried off the top honors in the Yale Interscholastics, and accomplished the same feat twice at the Harvard Interscholastics...
Coach Farrell, who will leave with the team at an early hour this morning, did not have his usual optimism when speaking last night of the possible results. "Yale will start the meet", he said, "far and away the favorite. It will be the greatest feat of the spring if the Harvard Freshmen can come from behind and win." Coach Farrell added that in a recent conversation with the Yale coach he was told that the Blue Freshman team is probably the strongest that that University has produced in recent years...