Word: featness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...record of one hour's continuous playing is a considerable feat in spite of the fact that Bob lost the contest in his many years of playing the delicate little six-note instrument. Bob has taken part in innumerable parades and has been a member of several orchestras. The most important parade to the veteran player was the Hayes-Wheeler parade which took place after the election of Hayes...
...defend its national title in Washington, D. C., At the same time the individual championship of the National Squash Racquets Association will be defended by Dixon. Last season the title holder won the crown at Buffalo while participating in the team matches. The former University captain accomplished the notable feat of winning all his matches in both the individual and inter-district club tournaments...
...difficulties of compiling such a volume as the Register are of course great; but that they are such as to require four and a half months time is denied by common sense and by past experience. In 1921 an undergraduate board brought out the Register on October 28, a feat which stands as a permanent indictment against delay...
...incident in the life of this lady of acknowledged charm has on many an occasion risen to the rank of highest artistic achievement. In 1921, for example, she played all of Beethoven's 32 sonatas in a series of eight concerts, a feat which she alone of women has performed. As an artist she had perfect training, having studied under Jedliczka, Reimann, Boise; at her debut in 1905 all the critics guessed safely with the Boston Herald: "Here is a woman with emotions and with a soul ... a brilliant future"; as a performer she has never had the ecstatic devotion...
...dirigible, sniffing at air pockets, nosing through patches of heathery cloud, like a baby kangaroo which had got out of its mother's pouch. Presently the dirigible flashed a signal; the long metallic umbilical cord was lowered again and the airplane whined close, ready to try the hazardous feat of mooring. While both crafts drowsed along at the same speed, the plane was hooked by a special apparatus, hoisted to the trapeze, lifted back into the body of the dirigible. The British Air Ministry declared that this experiment has been attempted before but never successfully. If the technique...