Word: feats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time that college milers beat regularly today, and the former Kansas flash saw no end to the improvement. "They'll get the time under 3:48," a full 6.4 sec. better than the current world mark, he said, and nominated one candidate for the feat: 14-year-old Glenn Jr. Said Glenn Sr.: "He can out run most of the high school kids in his home country right now." Ambling along East Side Manhattan, Visitor Harry S Truman allowed to re porters as how they are in error when they write a period after his middle initial...
...short, looking after the Faculty of Arts and Sciences is no mean feat. And there is little doubt that the task will keep Ford busy...
...into trouble at Princeton. But few of the 3000 onlookers one week later will forget the team's exciting 14-3 win over Yale. Few on the team will forget the 65-yard interception run by captain Bill Swinford for a fourth quarter score. The rugged lineman repeated the feat in a varsity game two years later...
...against brown when Mike Drummey doubled to upon the Crimson half of the first and strong flies by Terry Bartolet and Dave Morse brought him home. A1 Yarbro, Though, was greeted by three straight Brown hits in the top of the second, and all the runners eventually scored, a feat partially made possible by Morse's error cut short...
...Tower of Babel had nothing on the modern cocktail party, whose disparate clatter and chatter has long fascinated linguists, novelists, sociologists and sound engineers-as well as the imbibers. Unconsciously, every cocktail-partygoer performs an unusual feat as he sips his gin amid the din: while carrying on his own dazzling conversation, he is able simultaneously to monitor the surrounding babble for such important items as the sound of his own name or a verbal pass at a lady friend. How does the human organism perform these intellectual gymnastics? Fascinated by what they call "the cocktail-party problem," two British...