Word: featness
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...there will be other shovels. When Pegasus wings and muses buskin off, there will come the welcome biss of perhaps a firmer representation of man's greatest feat the steam shovel. And man ever quick to have faith, will discover the unity in multiplicity, the permanence in change and the class of 1930 will again have amusement...
...feat was all in the year's work for the twelve planes of Squadron No. 1, commanded by Lieut. E. W. Spencer. During the winter they maneuvered far and wide about their base at Guantanamo, Cuba. In the spring they flitted back to Norfolk, Va., then six of them left in-June for summer exercises at Newport...
...used to say, "Joe never speaks unless he has something to say." That has become a Shemokin tradition. My original thought was to pick an All-American team for 1926, and thus win the distinction of being the first, as well as of course the best, to perform that feat this year. But that is against CRIMSON policy, they tell me, and CRIMSON policy is a fearful and wonderful thing. They sometimes even put me on an inside page...
...they should not enjoy the amenities of seagoing passengers of today in the way of promenades, dancing, games and music. To fly from Paris or London to New York will be commonplace." Now this speaker was Louis Blériot, who, in July, 1909, performed the then unheard-of feat of flying across the English Channel. The Blériot monoplane of 1909 was something of a portent and Louis Blériot has been building aircraft ever since. Never till last week had he repeated his flight of 1909, either as pilot or passenger, "because until two years...
...Whitten Brown safely on "the other side" in 16 hours, 12 minutes. The late Lord Northcliffe enriched those two flyers with some $50,000 in prize money and prophesied that soon London newspapers would be sold the day of issue in Manhattan. But no man has since attempted the feat of a non-stop transatlantic passage in a heavier-than-air* machine, though of late years a Manhattan hotel man, Raymond Orteig, has been offering $25,000 to see it duplicated. Lately, in and about Manhattan, there has moved a stalwart, not-very-tall young man with the gait...