Word: feats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pounder, off Liverpool, N. S. Last fortnight, Mr. Howell caught a 792-lb. tuna after a 62-hr. fight. Not because he is 5 ft. 4 in. and weighs 130 lb., but because he discovered that in England last year L. Mitchell Henry landed an 850-lb. tuna, the feat made him feel "rather small." Last week, the first fish Mr. Howell caught weighed 830 lb. Disappointed, he set out again, felt a strike almost immediately, landed his record tuna on a light linen line and hickory rod after...
...picture, The Artist's Mother, is fading rapidly. ... He hardly ever talked to us of America except to tell us of his experiences as a midshipman or whatever they call it in the American Navy at West Point.* On one occasion I remember his telling us of his greatest feat as a midshipman when he plucked and painted an eagle as a cock and entered it in a cockfighting contest. Of course the eagle demolished the prize birds...
...four days of splashing up & down the 50-meter pool at Detroit's River Rouge Park last week the best girl swimmers and divers in the U. S. accomplished the remarkable feat of setting no new U. S. record. It was the first time on record that a national Amateur Athletic Union championship meet had failed to produce at least one. This indication that swimming & diving technique is approaching perfection gave more importance to the nine championships decided. Individual titles...
...scowling heavens loosed a cloudburst just as the Royal Train drew in. Terrific thunder claps, incessant lightning and sheets of lashing rain kept Their Majesties aboard the train all night. Next day amid brilliant sunshine Lord Derby was their guest as they chuffed off to open the most exciting feat of British engineering in this decade-Queensway, longest and largest underwater tunnel in the world...
...greatest feat was the translation of an ancient Welsh manuscript of Bardic music, written approximately 1,000 years ago and the subject for 200 years of fruitless inspection. This, says Arnold Dolmetsch, reveals "a flow of melody and a poignance that proclaim a most inspired and emotional period of music." Compositions of 934 A.D., he found, were "amazingly near akin to the most modern music...