Word: feats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pierre Cot is a scrappy, bespectacled Radical-Socialist of 41 who is generally regarded as one of France's smartest young politicians. He has held the post of Air Minister off & on since 1933. His biggest feat was the merging of five unimportant airlines into potent Air France. Last week his prestige from this achievement was, temporarily at least, forgotten as the result of a fiasco which has been in the making for a year and last week attained its climax...
...speech there could be no doubt that Governor Earle had undertaken a great feat, never before performed by man: having made a political crossing of the color line, to make a political crossing of the Mason-Dixon...
...crossing the International Date Line, the eclipse accomplished the feat-not rare for eclipses-of ending the day before it started. It began on Wednesday, finished on Tuesday. Since it crossed the Equator twice and also the 180th meridian, it entered four hemispheres. Most curious of all, although until this week there had been no seven-minute-plus eclipse in 1,200 years, there will be two more of them in the 20th Century-one in Ceylon, Siam and the Philippines in 1955, the other in South America and Africa in 1973. The U. S., however, will get only...
...seven other teams, in their own Pacific Coast Conference championships. At last month's Stanford-Southern California dual meet, Southern California's Bill Sefton and Earle Meadows pole-vaulted to a record 14 ft. 8½ in. At Los Angeles last week, Sefton and Meadows duplicated the feat by both vaulting 14 ft. 11 in., a full 4½ inches higher than George Varoffs accepted world's record. Also broken was the world's record for the mile relay which Washington State's quartet finished in 3:12.3. High meet scores: Southern California 55, Stanford...
...higher than Brooklyn Bridge's. The PWA refused to help, as did most banks. Then Amadeo Peter Giannini's Bank of America took the bonds which financed it.* These preliminaries at last over, the builders faced what Joe Strauss called "the most diffi cult engineering feat ever tackled." Three years of construction overcame this obstacle...