Word: featness
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...chance of such a sinking? Is it impossible? The grizzled mariner would shake his head. Nothing is impossible. In two ways may a ship be sunk?by being crushed, by being capsized. Naval architects are not hired to design ships that a storm could crush. Such a feat would yield neither profit nor honor. But capsize ? Everything that floats, or nearly everything, can be capsized. A ship that rolls easily is best, for she knows how to right herself. Of course, she is less comfortable for passengers than one who keeps an even keel in ordinary weathers...
...Scientists have already succeeded in changing nitrogen into hydrogen by the action of alpha particles. This feat was accomplished by Rutherford some time ago. Another investigator has reported a change of tungsten into helium at a very high temperature, but scientists in general consider his results as unconfirmed. The work of Rutherford has been duplicated by several other investigators and his transmutation of nitrogen into hydrogen is accepted as a fact...
...Clem L. Shaver as Democratic National Chairman. In the East, Governor Al Smith has a claim because he rewon his state by 100,000 votes and ran some 900,000 ahead of Davis. In the Middle West, Governor A. Victor Donahey of Ohio became a hero by a similar feat. But can either of the last two gentlemen nationalize themselves...
...Donahey, however, though not so well advertised, performed a feat as great. As he did in 1922, so did he again sweep himself into office, although both times the state went Republican, and in the last case Coolidge ran 600,000 votes ahead of Davis. But Vic? who was farmer and father of 10 chil dren before he was politician, Vic of old Scotch Presbyterian stock, Vic who keeps convicts, mainly ex-murderers as servants in the Executive Mansion, Vic who roars and pounds his desk as if making one unending campaign speech ? induced the people of Ohio...
...exterior of the wing has been the result of an ingenuous engineering feat. There stood from 1822 to 1914 one of the most beautiful façades in America-that of the old U. S. Assay office. Business caused its destruction. Art has preserved it. Every stone of the façade was carefully numbered, transported to the museum. It has been reproduced as the South Façade of the American Wing...