Word: feats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fencing [April 3] is not only an athletic feat; it is an art, a skill, a fierce and fast-precision thing with judgments and reactions timed to the quarter-inch...
...world at large he was most renowned for his Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead, an unsurpassed mnemonic feat of verbatim reporting, which has been reissued in paperback and even translated into Arabic. But, steadfastly refusing all honors and awards, he especially enjoyed writing under the shielding "Uncle Dudley" byline of the Boston Globe, whose pages he graced, lustrum after lustrum, for an entire half-century. His Sunday editorials, always timely, were usually timeless as well, and unexcelled in any other newspaper...
Kalmbach will try to come back and capture the 200-yard butterfly right after the medley, and whether such a feat is physically possible for the tiger sophomore is somewhat of a question mark. Kalmbach failed in the attempt two weeks ago against Michigan, and just might stage a repeat tomorrow against the Crimson's Harry Turner...
...says deprecatingly, when he actually craves things like river pike drenched in crayfish butter and will, under interrogation and a glaring light, admit that one day last summer he drove 75 miles out of his way to patronize a noted Norman chef, eating two complete meals in a gastric feat that might have made Brillat-Savarin wink in his grave...
This week Awori will be attempting the startling feat of running both the hurdles and the sprints first in the Millrose games in New York Thursday night and then in the B.A.A. meet in the Boston Garden Saturday...