Word: finales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Advocate" held a preliminary contest among students and submitted the best stories to three members of the English Department faculty for final winnowing. They chose two stories, which the magazine submitted as its entry in the national competition...
Harvard's vast empire is nominally governed by an imposing hierarchy ranging from the humble Student Council, through the Faculty Council, Visiting Committees, and Corporation, up to the Board of Overseers, final arbiters of Harvards' destiny...
Facing one another in the final last week, Newcomer McDaniel and Oldtimer Weir, matching aggressive play with brilliant tactics, kept the partisan crowd of 1,500 in seesawing shrieks of delight and dismay before young McDaniel won the match and title, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4. Besieged by dusky damsels, Champion McDaniel was swept off the court, signed his autograph until his hand was numb. They all thought he was good enough to represent the U. S. on the Davis Cup team...
...Willkie fired a final shot. Next day in Manhattan newspapers appeared a full-page advertisement, duplicate of an ad run two days before in Southern papers. Under a print of a church tower with the hands of the clock at 12, Copywriter Wendell Willkie wrote: "Tonight at midnight, we hand over our Tennessee Electric properties and a $2,800,000 tax problem...
Byron refused to answer Lady Falkland but had her informed that she was mistaken and that if she continued to annoy him, he would insult her. Her final disillusioned blast: "Don't write to me. I will not open any letters from you-nor will I see you if you call...