Word: feats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Were not the I. C. C. a serious-minded body its Plan might have been entitled: "How to divide 250,000 miles of railroad into 19 systems and juggle them all into the air at once." The Commission had drawn up a set of instructions for this breathtaking feat, but left for another time any attempt to get its 19 systems off paper and into operation...
...Nock said, "After all there is but one standard of fine scholarship and scholars worthy the name are the same the world over." He finds the scholastic attainments of the graduate students at Harvard very high and he remarked that his seminars with them are among the most pleasant feat- ures of his stay at Harvard...
...devise an ordeal by dizziness for Legrange. He must walk from one window to another along a four-inch ledge on the outside of the building which, at that point, is 200 feet above ground. If he falls, his death will be announced as suicide; if he accomplishes the feat the whole matter will promptly be forgotten. Needless to say, Legrange treads the ledge safely, guilty only of shielding a woman's guilt. The harrowing quality of the ledge scene fails to mitigate Playwright Paul Osborn's long, tedious stretches. This idle melodrama is the second presentation...
...attacking capitalism all along the line and defeating it. Without foreign capital we are accomplishing the unprecedented feat of building up heavy industry in a backward country. This year our capital investment in industry will amount to 3,500,000,000 rubles (about...
...Crimson ballcarrying quartet this year. Wood established himself as an able and alert quarterback. He played a heady and cool game throughout and although not carrying the ball once he was responsible for the last touchdown when he threw another last-minute aerial to Harding, duplicating his feat of the Army game. Harper was back to his old form again when, in the opening quarter, he made two successive first downs single handed...