Word: feats
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Scotland's James Boswell (1740-95) has done most of his growing in the grave. Until he died, his Life of Samuel Johnson was more esteemed as a feat of stenography than as a work of literature. In the 19th century, the book was accurately revalued as the first great biography in English, but its author was dismissed by proper Victorians as a whoremongering buffoon. "Servile and impertinent," Lord Macaulay called him, "a bigot and a sot, a talebearer, a common butt in the taverns of London." But Boswell was to have the last word -in fact, several million...
...Mentality for the Unusual." Remarkable as Carpenter's feat was, few people who knew him were surprised. A superb, all-round athlete at Springfield (Pa.) High School, Bill Carpenter had some two dozen college offers when he graduated-including one from the U.S. Military Academy. That was the one he wanted, and after a one-year brush-up course at New York's Manlius School, Carpenter was admitted to the Point...
...plaudits for this highly successful operation properly belong to the patriotic civilian and military personnel of TF-65, who so diligently and systematically employed their knowledge of the sea and effectively utilized the accurate contact information generated by TF-65 ships and equipment in accomplishing this unprecedented feat...
Delicate Balance. The successful vaccine was made in a mere four years after the elusive rubella virus was originally persuaded to grow in the laboratory (TIME, Aug. 3, 1962). It was a virological feat equivalent to the running of the first four-minute mile.* Yet even this speed was not enough to save an estimated 30,000 U.S. babies from inborn defects such as cataracts, heart malformations and mental retardation. For in 1963-65, history's worst recorded epidemic of German measles swept inexorably across the U.S., disabling more infants than did the thalidomide disaster in Europe. In addition...
...acclaim was lavished on the Bolshoi's wing-footed Prima Ballerina Maya Plisetskaya. On opening night she danced the dual role of Odette-Odile in Swan Lake, and on the next night performed in the U.S. première of Petipa's Don Quixote-altogether a feat that is roughly comparable to Sandy Koufax pitching both ends of a doubleheader...