Word: feats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Zealand sprinter will be somewhat delayed by late examinations but will arrive in New York at least two days before the games. Porritt has the distinction of having broken the English intercollegiate record in the 100-yard dash which had stood for over 70 years. He accomplished this feat during a snow storm in the Oxford Cambridge meet in March, running the distance in 9.9 seconds. He is also a hurdler and captured second place in both hurdle events in the same meet...
...Georg Tchitcherin, journeyed to the town of Leninkin, operated a sluice to the strains of Internationale, opened the Shiraksky Canal, 40 miles long. Two miles of its course runs through a tunnel bored under rocky mountains. It is designed to irrigate 15,000 acres and is the first engineering feat of any consequence attempted during the Bolshevik régime...
...Mitchell. He said, in regard to the General's declaration that the Philippines would fall an easy prey to air attack, that of course the islands could be taken, but it could not be done by aircraft without a Navy. Two weeks, the time suggested for such a feat, he believed was "a pretty short time." Airplanes, he said, were essential as auxiliaries...
...University squash racquets Teams A and B, and the Freshman team were all triumphant in their week-end matches. Team B duplicated the feat of Team A by clinching the state championship in Class B when it defeated the Union Boat Club by a 4 to 1 score. J. H. Finley '25 was the only Crimson racquet wielder to go down to defeat. He lost to Ralph May after a close struggle, which went the five game limit...
...entire trip of the Boston 1, the plane piloted by Lieutenant Wade. The pictures will include scenes of actual flying conditions, some of them taken at high altitudes, and also pictures of the elaborate celebrations with which the American fliers were greeted in every part of the globe. The feat was accepted abroad as at home, as an accomplishment which will doubtless bear much the same relation to the development of aviation, as that of Magellan has to the history of sailing...