Word: feats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gallows, Crippen the first murderer ever apprehended by wireless? (see p. 40). Then there was Smith, "the Brides-of-the-Bath Bluebeard." To prove how easy it was for Smith to drown his brides in his tub without a struggle, did not Sir Bernard Spilsbury all but perform that feat himself?* Ever since the discovery last summer of Brighton Trunk Murder No. 1 (TIME, July 2) and Brighton Trunk Murder No. 2, most of His Majesty's subjects have been sure that Sir Bernard Spilsbury would enable Scotland Yard to solve both mysteries. Last week came the big surprise...
...Hawaii 18 years ago and has lived there ever since. Unlike youngsters in schools in the United States, Peter never had the advantage of competitive swimming. In his first race at Harvard, which was really the first race in his life, he broke the Freshman record. A truly remarkable feat...
Coos & Bombs-In foreign policy Herr Hitler's cleverness characteristically exhibits itself by eschewing the blatant, bellicose tone with which he delights Germans. It was no mean feat for Der Reichs-fűhrer to achieve last week a declaration so mild that it was buried by the Jewish-sympathizing New York Times on page four...
...learn from the government. To obscure the issue, and to create a fantastically low rate-base, the Norrisses and Wheelers with the able assistance of Mr. Roosevelt, have written off huge sums as "sinking-fund expenditures" for work relief, navigation, flood-control, nitrate manufacture, and similar projects. This remarkable feat in bookkeeping enables the T.V.A. fathers to call the power created, estimated as enough for several states, just "surplus." Further, the "charging off" to unproductive uses permits a charmingly low rate base for which, apparently, nobody pays--except the whole body of taxpayers...
...cheerfully hand over this sum in a currency backed 81% by gold in exchange for German marks with a gold backing of less than 3%. According to Germans the "monetary patriotism" of Saarlanders equals the rest of their German patriotism, will drive them to enable Adolf Hitler, by a feat of monetary legerdemain, to pay France for the Saar mines with Saar patriots' French francs...