Word: feats
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Armistice, Bethlehem faced a difficult problem of converting its facilities to peacetime production. The shift was made gradually and without great loss, and has now been completed. Only about 2% of the company's entire property and plant investment now consists of emergency ordnance plants. Bethlehem's feat is all the more remarkable when it is recalled that the Midvale Steel and Ordnance Co., taken over by Bethlehem in 1923, was likewise primarily a producer of war materials...
...this feat his reputation had rested until the World War, when he took charge of returning prisoners of war to their native countries. His work was largely in Russia, Germany, and Czecho-Slavakia. Since the war he has been doing relief work in connection with the League of Nations. He has won for himself as great honors for relief work as for his polar expedition. It was for the relief work that he was awarded the Nobel prize...
Yale opened its season with a terrific rush against North Carolina on October 6, and rolled, up 59 points, and almost repeated the feat on the next Saturday by downing Georgia 40-0. The opposition was not strong enough to test Yale in any way, but only proved it had a wealth of material, especially of fast backs...
Lieutenants Steel and Hunt of the Army performed one of the most difficult of maneuvers, flying with wings vertical for some distance, with the fuselage supplying the lift instead of the wings-a feat only possible at the tremendous speed of the modern airplane...
...nearly enough for the Navy. Lieutenants Williams and Brow have been indulging in a friendly game of record-smashing which is as close as the most rabid fan for races could wish. At the present time both of these gentlemen have to their credit the feat of travelling at the rate of four and a half miles a minute, and both accomplished this on the same...