Word: featness
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Just ahead a subway train had broken down. "P. G." decided that since it must be pushed to the next station by the train he was driving, he would stay at the motorman's post and do the pushing, a feat mildly ticklish. With undergroundmen, including Lord Ashfield, perspiring profusely, "P. G." pushed successfully. "I assure you, Sir," cried flustered Lord Ashfield as they alighted, "that the breakdown experience you have had is one which one of our drivers might not encounter in a lifetime...
...worst of all, your correspondent wrote that at the conclusion of his feat "he was lugged off to a hospital. . . ." That we feel was an unwarranted inference that things did not go so well with Mr. Gough...
...expedition also crossed from Yukon Territory over the mountains to the Alaskan coast. This is the first time an expedition has accomplished this feat...
...laid out on the site of a Chinese graveyard near Tientsin where his father was stationed eleven years ago. He began to play seriously when his father returned to the U. S. In 1927, he took to entering major tournaments and in 1929, at 18, accomplished his first noteworthy feat by beating Johnny Goodman who had just beaten Bobby Jones, in the U.S. Amateur. Last year he won the British Amateur at Prestwick, after the most one-sided final in the tournament's history when, against a frightened Troon carpenter named Wallace, he played 23 holes without losing...
...Pittsburgh Pirates: 11 runs to 7; a baseball game against the Boston Braves, despite the efforts of aging Babe Ruth who, equaling a feat he has accomplished only three times before in his career, made three homeruns...