Word: feats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...success of this feat suggests that it may be possible to salvage between $4,000,000 and $6,000,000 in gold and valuables that sank with the Lusitania. The Lusitania, sunk by a German submarine in 1915, lies in 42 fathoms of water off the southern coast of Ireland. It opens up vistas of salvaging sunken Spanish argosies with their almost legendary treasures...
...chance of such a sinking? Is it impossible? The grizzled mariner would shake his head. Nothing is impossible. In two ways may a ship be sunk?by being crushed, by being capsized. Naval architects are not hired to design ships that a storm could crush. Such a feat would yield neither profit nor honor. But capsize ? Everything that floats, or nearly everything, can be capsized. A ship that rolls easily is best, for she knows how to right herself. Of course, she is less comfortable for passengers than one who keeps an even keel in ordinary weathers...
...play these movements adequately is a difficult technical feat. It requires an attack now crisp as frosty air, now heavy and lingering to catch the humming overtone of a big bell's voice. On Christmas day, in grey cathedral closes, in the belfries of State Houses, many bells will sound that are too heavy to be swayed by any bellringers, no matter how much they caper or warm their fingers. Biggest of all was the great bell of Moscow, cast around 1734, now used as the dome of a chapel. Other big bells are those of Burma, weight...
...Scientists have already succeeded in changing nitrogen into hydrogen by the action of alpha particles. This feat was accomplished by Rutherford some time ago. Another investigator has reported a change of tungsten into helium at a very high temperature, but scientists in general consider his results as unconfirmed. The work of Rutherford has been duplicated by several other investigators and his transmutation of nitrogen into hydrogen is accepted as a fact...
...exterior of the wing has been the result of an ingenuous engineering feat. There stood from 1822 to 1914 one of the most beautiful façades in America-that of the old U. S. Assay office. Business caused its destruction. Art has preserved it. Every stone of the façade was carefully numbered, transported to the museum. It has been reproduced as the South Façade of the American Wing...