Word: feats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then everything began to go to pieces. Royall Victor, who had been pitching well early in the game, blew up and allowed four walks. The Blue team began to take ahold of his pitches, and the runs poured over the plate. The crowning feat of the inning was a homer by Vines of the opponents when the bases were loaded...
Nearly two milleniums ago a man who liked monuments sent his Roman legions into the Alps and in three brisk campaigns made vassals of its 44 tribes. To celebrate that feat the Roman Senate & People raised to their first Emperor, Augustus Caesar, a great monument, on a lonely hill overlooking the Mediterranean and the shore road along which the legions marched toward Spain. Like a great stone wedding cake, the Trophy of the Alps rose 150 ft., topped by a stone Augustus. With the centuries the Visigoths, Ostrogoths, Vandals and Huns tore the great pile apart. Later still...
...remember anything except that he will not be on hand to help. It turns out that Nemecsek does not miss the battle. He clambers out of bed, staggers desperately into the thick of the scuffle, jumps at the throat of the leader of the Red Shirts. This feat of valor does more than end the war. When Nemecsek's mother arrives to find her son, small Nemecsek is dead. The next day, a steam-shovel starts digging up the Paul Street lot for the foundation of an apartment house...
...Symphony written in Switzerland a short time ago. The composer has said of this symphony: "I have been sparing in my use of percussion punctuation in an attempt to make the music itself intrinsically rhythmic." In this he has amply succeeded. He has been so involved in this technical feat, however, that by the time the third movement is reached, the music strikingly resembles a popular tune. This is a fact not in the least derogatory to the symphony but it is likely to shorten its life when it becomes more generally known...
...meaning Compassionate and Fortunate), was the last great sitter on China's Dragon Throne. Born into a noble clan still well-known in Peiping, she was chosen for the household of a dissolute Emperor, wangled herself up from fourth to second rank and produced his only son, a feat in itself. A slim little woman with lively black eyes, an implacable fury when crossed, otherwise fond of argument, company and flowers, she effectively ruled China from 1861 when she was 27 until her death in 1908. a chagrined old crone of 74. She engineered three coups d'etat...