Word: featness
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...When he arrived in San Francisco he put his Bible on an overturned whiskey barrel in the middle of Portsmouth Square, bellowed and sang until the saloons emptied to hear him. For diversion he swam regularly across San Francisco Bay, a procedure still regarded as something of an athletic feat. He founded the College of the Pacific (Methodist Episcopal college in Stockton, enrollment about 970), wrote more than 20 books, thundered his old-time religion at Gold Coast sots and socialites...
Another man who may prove a Crimson dark horse is W. C. Rowe '31, whose first in the broad jump last Monday created one of the biggest upsets of the Triangular Meet. If P. N. Vonckx '31 can duplicate his feat performed in the Briggs Cage in the H-D-C meet, he is almost certain to place in the weight throw...
...from dusk to moonrise eight miles out in the Atlantic, set the season's record, won her one of the Long Key fishing club's little gold buttons for a championship.* Washington society, whom the Stones entertain often and well, waited for her own account of the feat. If anyone should impolitely doubt her story, she can substantiate it by the best evidence-a cinema of her catch taken by Mrs. Hoover herself in the same small boat...
Clearly the lawyers' rather neat discovery had made it necessary for the Iron Man to haul down his nailed-up flag and he, astute, knew how to perform this second "impossible" feat...
...tone reproduction, FORTUNE'S photographs are reproduced by the "Intaglio" process-the reverse of ordinary half-tone printing-which works well with heavy, glossless papers. The type used is a reproduction by the English Monotype Co. of the letters designed by the 18th Century craftsman Baskerville. His delicate feat was to modernize and clarify the types which then existed. FORTUNE'S letter has none of the condensation and "meanness" of later type faces...