Word: featness
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TIME inferred that Mr. Pond had done his somersaults from a springboard because of the photograph shown above-which was widely circulated by Pacific & Atlantic news photo service the day after Mr. Pond (aged 70) performed his difficult feat. For Mr. Pond to have turned aerial somersaults from a springboard is remarkable. For him to have turned them from the mat is all the more remarkable. TIME regrets that it unconsciously belittled Mr. Pond's feat, joins now in loud applause...
...have been amused at the letters from one of our members, Mr. Stanley Altman, which you have been fair enough to publish (TIME, May 2, 30). I am of the opinion that he has bested you, and that's quite a feat in itself. Really, I congratulate you on publishing them...
...recently increased our appreciation of its alert editorial management by publishing the story of the dog with a bone in its throat which was successfully treated in our free small animal clinic, by our veterinarian, Dr. G. R. Hartman. Getting out the bone in itself was not an exceptional feat, though such operations on animals are rare and difficult, and it is high time that the public should know that veterinary practice of the best kind nowadays frequently reaches quite as high a standard of skill and knowledge as that employed on human beings...
There is no doubt that Pilot Clarence Duncan Chamberlin and Passenger Charles A. Levine accomplished a heroic feat (TIME, June 13). Daring, they made a non-stop flight of 3,905 miles-the longest in history. Resolute, they reached Berlin after twice being forced to descend en route. Worthy, they were honored by President Paul von Hindenburg and the German people...
...Atwood has not astounded aviation circles since 1911 when he performed the at-that-time remarkable feat of hopping from St. Louis to New York...