Word: feats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sooner had the Witch Doctor, or Unga, divined certain extraordinary qualities of Mrs. Garrett than she fell into a trance. The "healing stones" sacred to Papaleba were tossed into a fire, and Mrs. Garrett was ordered to fetch and lay them before the altar of Papaleba. She accomplished this feat without burning her flesh; and thus, as she says, she passed her "trial by fire." As illustration, Mista Shabine sang for the audience the introductory chant to Papaleba...
...American consul. The Supreme Court subsequently asserted it to be the Executive's duty to act at his own discretion to protect American citizens. During the Boxer Rebellion in China in 1900, President McKinley sent 5,000 American soldier's and marines on a triumphal march to Peking, a feat unlikely to be repeated in the near future...
...greatest problems so far has been in changing the newcomers' basic strokes from tennis to squash, not a difficult feat, but one requiring constant practice to overcome the tendency to swing with the whole...
...rejuvenated weskit is making a desperate attempt to become part of the attire of today's stylish young man, and well it may. At any rate, there appears to be no Dior in sight who will, in the near future, set feat in the hearts of fashion wise Harvard males by upsetting the register of today's styles...
...accurately just how well Harvard will do this season. It can't do much worse than it has done the past few years, but this will be a building year for Wilson, and he will be happy if it just finished higher than last place, a not too impossible feat...