Word: feats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...game. The next game-Hobelmann depending largely on his reach, Atcheson playing low shots into the corners-was close till the points were at 6-all. Then Atcheson got another run, 15 points this time, to end the match and tournament without losing a game-a feat which he has performed three times in the national Y. M. C. A. championships. It was the third time he had given Hobelmann a licking in tournament play...
Last April John Ringling had given him the run of his "Greatest Show on Earth" for a month. His subjects now were the Flying Codonas, Baby Ruth the fat girl, trapezists, clowns, elephants. He likes best the Codonas' famed Passing Leap, a feat in which Vera Bruce Codona lets go of Lala Codona's hands at the end of the swing, catapults to a trapeze which her husband, the great Alfredo, has just left.* Alfredo, leaving without kicking back the trapeze, plunges over her and catches his brother's hands at the dizzy instant of pause before...
...significant which this year's pudding has revealed is that there is one more feat which defys the art of any Harvard undergraduate. A Harvard man simply does not know how to wear a form-fitting dress. But he can sing, skip rope, and as is most convincingly proved, he can sometimes write music...
...sight of a mouse, pivoting on a hind leg, gyroscopically whirling around 416 times without stopping or reversing might reasonably lead the observer to conclude that he or the mouse was drunk. Yet sober scientists have watched a sober mouse perform this very feat. The whirler was a Japanese waltzing mouse. It whirled because of a physical defect, probably of its inner...
Lining up a network in two hours for a remote control broadcast is a colossal news feat. Two days are the usual minimum for such a hookup...