Word: finale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Republic, which expires July 21, making residence in Germany of the onetime ruler dependent on the will of the Reichstag. Since the bill involves a change in the German Constitution, a two-thirds majority is always necessary to renew it. Bickering between Communists and Nationalists last week brought a final vote of 268 in favor of the law to 166 against, enought to defeat it. The Reichstag is almost sure to pass the law when it reassembles a fortnight hence. At Doorn a gentleman characterized by U. S. correspondents as "the ex-Kaiser's court marshal" said that there...
Espinosa had just finished his fourth and final round in the National Open Championship. He was getting ready to take a shower. He had holed a 75, for a total of 294. That was two strokes more than Walter Hagen had predicted would win the tournament this year. It was only one stroke more than Robert Tyre Jones Jr. had predicted would win. Somewhere near the last hole, Espinosa knew, Jones was finishing out his own final round. Jones had been four strokes under Espinosa at lunchtime. For Espinosa to remain in the lead for the title...
...groan, then a mingled roar from the huge gallery outside, told Espinosa that something had happened to Jones's second shot on the final hole. Heading for a trap to the left of the green the ball had stopped just short, in rough grass. The next thing Espinosa heard was a loud, but not wholehearted, cheer. Jones had pitched up, but his ball had stopped 12 feet short of the pin. "Let me look," blurted Espinosa and went to the locker room window...
...attack like a boxer wearing down but unable to subdue a brute. Eyes closed and bleeding, nose clogged, breath stertorous, Uzcudun, who had never been knocked out, was saved only by the bell in the 14th round. Schmeling says he might have finished him off in the next and final round, might have looked much more like a World's Champion, if he had not injured his right hand on the Basque's cromagnon cranium early in the fight...
...Julius Seligson of Lehigh University, 1928 titleholder, was defaulted when he failed to appear for his semi-final match. His unaccepted explanation: he thought it was raining. †First year of competition...