Word: featness
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...devise an ordeal by dizziness for Legrange. He must walk from one window to another along a four-inch ledge on the outside of the building which, at that point, is 200 feet above ground. If he falls, his death will be announced as suicide; if he accomplishes the feat the whole matter will promptly be forgotten. Needless to say, Legrange treads the ledge safely, guilty only of shielding a woman's guilt. The harrowing quality of the ledge scene fails to mitigate Playwright Paul Osborn's long, tedious stretches. This idle melodrama is the second presentation...
...attacking capitalism all along the line and defeating it. Without foreign capital we are accomplishing the unprecedented feat of building up heavy industry in a backward country. This year our capital investment in industry will amount to 3,500,000,000 rubles (about...
...Crimson ballcarrying quartet this year. Wood established himself as an able and alert quarterback. He played a heady and cool game throughout and although not carrying the ball once he was responsible for the last touchdown when he threw another last-minute aerial to Harding, duplicating his feat of the Army game. Harper was back to his old form again when, in the opening quarter, he made two successive first downs single handed...
...only a director in name but also in active fact. Thus, of Continental Can he is chairman of the executive committee, besides being its most famed student of economics. To add the problems of bottles to the problems of cans will be, for him, no extraordinary feat...
...another time some enterprising young gentlemen slipped out at night and removed the reveille cannon from its accustomed place. By some miraculous engineering, feat they hoisted it on top of the academic building and fired it off in the dead of night. It took a detachment of Engineers almost a week to lower the gun to its original position...