Word: feats
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...Photocopies. The monumentally projected scope of the collected Papers is a publishing feat that would have delighted the man who signed himself "B. Franklin, Printer," and was as proud of his craft as of his country. The co-sponsors of the Papers, Yale University and the American Philosophical Society, aided by a grant from LIFE, expect the project to run to 40 volumes appearing over the next 15 years. For the past 5½ years, Editor Leonard W. Labaree, Farnam Professor of History at Yale, and his associate, Whitfield J. Bell Jr., have combed libraries and personal collections from Leningrad...
...varsity's Tom Blodgett was the only double winner. He tied Harvard indoor, Briggs Cage, and meet standards with a 13 ft., 6 in. effort in the pole vault, but this was perhaps not his most impressive feat. He also took the measure of Terrier Art Reed, the New England champion, in the hurdles, with a good time...
Like this analysis, "reigning and radical existentialism" is an "invitation to construction," for the existentialist not only ignores the "transcendent dimension," but also"performs the more amazing feat of ignoring the actual historical dimension of self...
...Wisdom of the West, by Bertrand Russell. With spirit and skill, the 87-year-old author accomplishes the feat of compressing the history of Western philosophy into 320 pages...
...prodigious feat of analysis, narrative and condensation, Bertrand Russell has compressed the history of Western philosophy into 320 pages. (In a 1946 volume, he took nearly three times as much space.) As ground bait in the chilling stream of philosophic speculation, the publishers have sprinkled 500 illustrations, half of them in color, through this volume. From Thales (circa 624-546 B.C.), about whom little is known, to Whitehead and Wittgenstein, both of whom the author knew well, Russell tells something of the life as well as the ideas of the hundred-odd philosophers who have helped to make the mind...