Word: feats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Five days later the Admiralty reported that the submarine Ursula had sneaked into the mouth of the Elbe, past six German destroyers, and sunk a 6,000-ton cruiser. Since such a ship would normally carry 571 men, this feat almost made up for the loss of Royal Oak, certainly put Britain far ahead in the naval score for the week...
...Gehrig. Last spring, when a rare form of paralysis compelled First Baseman Gehrig to give up his beloved post after 15 years with the New York Yankees, U. S. sportswriters wreathed their columns with encomiums seldom bestowed on the living. Skimming over the Iron Horse's unrivaled feat of playing in 2,130 consecutive major-league games and casually reviewing his extraordinary batting records (some surpassing those of Babe Ruth), they crowned Lou Gehrig's Honesty, Modesty, Courage. Practically canonized. 36-year-old Lou Gehrig became the idol of U. S. youth...
Last year the grapplers whitewashed the Tufts contingent 34-0, and with the single exception of the 1.75 pound class they should be able to perform the same feat this year. In the 175 pound class Don Lowry, football guard, is to wrestle, but a complete lack of experience definitely slates him as the underdog in his weight...
...clouds of Judgment Time. And so--particularly among Freshmen--there are beginning to appear the usual cases of pre-exam intellectual indigestion. Sometimes this is the result of a real hazy indetermination as to what the first semester was all about; among Freshmen more often it is a psychopathic feat that Harvard is, after all, a very hard place, too hard to get through without special medicine...
Purdue's greatest feat of the season was holding mighty Notre Dame to one field goal (3-to-0) in its opening game...