Word: feats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan, for the second year in a row, the Harmon International Aviation Award for the year's outstanding performance by an aviatrix went to French Test Pilot Jacqueline Auriol, daughter-in-law of President Vincent Auriol. Her 1952 prizewinning feat: topping her own world's jet speed record for women by flying a 62-mile closed course at an average 531.843 m.p.h...
...mean feat to maintain serenity among men of such dissimilar temperaments as India's Nehru and South Africa's Daniel Malan, but Sir Winston Churchill did it-largely by the device of doing most of the talking himself...
...Provost, with the President's, cooperation and advice, has presided over (the College's diffuse administration), initiating and carrying out consistent policies. vigorous in their aptness to the present and striking in their maintenance of Harvard's best traditions. . . . A Provost must somehow secure confidence while playing politics, a feat which Mr. Buck accomplished with astonishing success. . . . It is a rare combination, ruthlessness and warmth; but from this paradox of character have come most of the advances by which Harvard has retained its place as the foremost American college...
This camera feat is only one of many extraordinary things about an extraordinary movie. Strange Deception is the first film effort of a highly controversial literary figure: 54-year-old Italian Journalist Curzio (Kaputt, The Skin) Malaparte, notorious in recent times for his shifting and often unsavory political alliances with both Fascist and Communist causes. In Strange Deception, Malaparte, who now claims to have renounced all forms of politics, has made a completely unpolitical movie which he describes as "a Christian film." It is neither pro-nor antiFascist, neither pro-nor antiCommunist; instead, with an almost religious fervor, it voices...
...have accomplished the feat. Only 42 scullers' names have been placed on the Thirty-Minute club board at Weld since the club was begun in 1940 by Blake Dennison, Boat House sculling coach. Only three scullers have made the club this season. And along with the numerous attempts to skim the four-mile distance in the required time, there have been many near misses...