Word: feats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Explorer Bezuidenhout explained he had accomplished his feat by disguising himself as a wild pig, going about grunting. Once a male okapi- who failed to be photographed- kicked the pig. Once an elephant charged the pig, made Mr. Bezuidenhout evacuate the pigskin, which it tusked and trampled...
Suspect Clark. 33, was most recently conspicuous as the prosecutor of Daisy De Boe, former secretary of Cinemactress Clara Bow, for theft (TIME, Jan. 26). He is a son-in-law of New York's late Supreme Court Justice James T. Malone. The most spectacular feat of his eight years of public service was the conviction in 1926 of Albert Marco (Albori), big-scale proprietor of brothels and gambling places. Marco, who is in San Quentin prison, had a partner and consort in comely, blonde June Taylor, who continued as his field-manager. Last week it was hinted that...
...short order, went with him when he was appointed Minister to France in 1889. She had her first taste of diplomacy and liked it. She founded the American Art Students' Club-now Reid Hall-made a place for herself in the capital's bon ton, no easy feat. Back in the U. S., she shared her husband's political set-back in 1892 when he was defeated for the vice-presidency. Five years later she went with him to England when he was special ambassador to Queen Victoria's Jubilee. Again, when an-other touch...
When the S. 0. S. system finally got working, it performed the following typical feat: "At 8:15 one morning a telegram was received ordering [from the supply base] 4,596 tons of supplies, including 1,250,000 cans of tomatoes, 1,000,000 lb. of sugar, 600,000 cans of corn beef, 750,000 lb. of tinned hash and 150,000 lb. of dry beans. At 6:15 in the evening this colossal requisition which required 457 cars to transport was loaded...
Washington last week caught up with Leyden, Berlin and Toronto in the matter of liquefying helium (after hydrogen most volatile of gases) and keeping it liquid-a scientific feat first accomplished 23 years ago. The jubilant men who did it were staff members of the U. S. Bureau of Standards-Drs. George Kimball Burgess (director), Hobert Cutler Dickinson and Ferdinand Graft Brickwedde and two aides. In cylinders stout enough to withstand the tremendous expansion of gases they compressed air to liquid ( - 310º F.). Liquid air helped liquefy hydrogen ( - 432.4º F.); liquid hydrogen helped freeze helium to a colorless...