Word: featness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Miss Lillian Harrison, Argentine swimmer training to swim the English Channel, last week performed this feat as part of her training. She entered a marathon swim from Corbell to Paris, one woman in a field of eleven men. Two black Senegalese swimmers, accustomed to the tepid rivers of Afria, turned saffron, then green with cold, left the race. T. W. Burgess, Englishman who swam the Channel in 1911, followed suit. One by one the giant swimmers quit until only five were left, among them stout-hearted Miss Harrison. At the Austerlitz Bridge she had cramps; at the Chamber of Deputies...
Tired and sore of foot, they there constructed rafts of logs, planks, boxes, and essayed to float down the Chitina River to McCarthy. This feat one raft accomplished without let or hindrance from rock or snag. The other, skippered by Explorer McCarthy, capsized in boiling rapids, left its passengers a 70-mile trudge...
...Brussels, there was a bustle after the departure for the U. S. of Soprano Elizabeth Day, who recently sang songs in various languages-first in French, then in Italian, English, Spanish, Hebrew and finally, for the first time since the War, in German. This daring feat was received with applause...
London bankers and British Government officials are, for this reason, looking ahead to the coming autumn season with considerable anxiety. Thus far it has not been so much of a feat to keep sterling at its gold par with the dollar. But the real test of Chancellor of the Exchequer Churchill's bold step in resuming gold payments this spring (TIME, May 11, COMMONWEALTH) will come this fall. Hitherto, Britain has not been forcd by her assumption of the full gold standard to export much gold -in fact, if anything, she has imported the yellow metal on balance from...
...great feat had been performed and great hardships had been endured and the heroes were home from the wastes, home with a story...