Word: ended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although Harvard outhit Cornell by a five-four margin, it never came near to winning until the last inning, but on the fielding end Cornell was superior, with we boots against three for the New Yorkers...
...Gannett was called out on strikes, but Art Johns walked filling the bases. The next man up was Lupien who had singled and tripled on two previous occasions at bat, but in his final effort he poled a brisk line drive into the hands of centerfielder Brown to end the inning...
...begin with, he holds the Harvard and pool records in the 50, 100, and 220, having set times that are dangerously near world records. By the end of this year's regular season he had been beaten but four times in his swimming career, not counting the Olympics. These were the finals of the N. C. A. A. 50 in 1936, the finals of the N. A. A. U. 100 in 1937, the 440 in the 1937 Yale meet, and the match race of 150 yards with Bill Kendall, and in all of these races he came in second...
...comes to tracing the course of his creative processes is when he divulges that working in a steel mill made him decide that Carl Sandburg's poems about the beauty of steel were phony, and that he went away cured of wanting to imitate Robert Burns. In the end he confesses what readers of Man with a Bull-Tongue Plow long ago guessed: "I was not mastering poetry but it was mastering...
...room in Los Angeles, but after driving the 400 miles from Los Angeles to Oakland and back to Los Angeles, he was always so tired when he saw her that she decided he was indifferent. As loads got smaller, hauls longer and tires more worn, the end of Nick's story came closer. Early one morning, after 30 hours of steady driving, Nick suddenly discovered that he could not stop his truck, noticed dreamily that he was going 75 miles an hour downhill...