Word: featness
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...floors and roof laid, partitions erected, the building finished, and furniture procured. He had the satisfaction of bringing all the students into residence, in September, 1642, and presiding at the first Commencement, according to the dignified rites of his mother university. This completion of the building was no small feat, for Dunster had not been in office a year when a severe economic crisis struck New England. "Corn would buy nothing", wrote Governor Winthrop. "A cow which cost last year 20 pounds might now be bought for four or five pounds; then, too, many people have gone...
...tusk was found sticking in a river bank, which was 200 feat high, at that point. Half of the tusk was protruding from the bank, the other half being wedged between stratas of rock, as was discovered when excavations were made in the attempt to dig it up. This work took several days, as care had to be taken not to injure the tooth, which, although cracked in places, was otherwise in excellent condition...
...fashion nowadays for pretty musical comedy stars to step overnight into grand opera. Mary Lewis made it. So did Grace Moore. But the feat was never attempted by a cinemactress until last week when honors were awarded to Hope Hampton for her début as Manon with the Philadelphia Grand Opera Company...
President Coolidge shook hands with Lux, gigantic police dog of blind Senator Thomas David Schall of Minnesota. He was the first man, excepting Lux's master, to perform such a feat...
...system the second largest telephone company in South America. British stockholders recalled, last week, that he had already gained control of the third largest (Chile Telephone Co.) and fourth largest (Montevideo Telephone Co.), both wrested from British interests. Last June, I. T. & T. celebrated an extraordinary feat. Fighting snowstorms, landslides, it had flung its telephone lines across the 13,000-ft. Andes, linking Valparaiso, Buenos Aires, Montevideo...