Word: finally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trouble was that Homer Martin could not get along with four of his five vice presidents, therefore suspended them (TIME, June 20). Last week he hailed them before his executive board in Detroit. The defendants understood that the final hearing was to be more of an execution than a trial, therefore stayed away and swapped charges with Homer Martin in the newspapers...
Taking no chances, the court-martial suspended judgment until an investigation can be made of whether last winter the sergeant's wife and child really needed woollies. The final verdict: guilty...
...time's nick, as the last ray of daylight began to fade, Golfer Ferebee limped up to the final green, sank his putt for a 5 and a last-round 89. He had taken 687 strokes (90, 82, 82, 82, 87, 87, 88, 89) for the 144 holes, had covered each of Olympia's four courses twice (a tee-to-green distance of 29 miles) in 13 hr. 32 min. "Well, anyway, my golf's got volume, if not quality," panted Ferebee, as he peeled off $100 to pay the ten caddies he had used...
...like a Romance patois. Though it runs on rules like rails, it lends itself to precise shades of meaning. In 1921, as a test, the Paris Chamber of Commerce had two Esperantists translate delicate texts of French into Esperanto, then had two others turn them back into French; the final texts were almost identical with the originals. The language has only 16 simple rules of grammar, to which there are no exceptions. Its huge vocabulary is compounded from roots common to many languages. For instance, from the root pres (to print) are derived presajho (a piece of printed matter), represi...
...took up the specific case of WLW, last week was told of business plucked from a small station by WLW's giant strength. The hearing closed with another renewal of WLW's experimental 500 kw. till February 1939. But this time the renewal is subject to the final decisions which will come out of FCC's hearings of the last two months. These decisions are likely to be delayed until next year while the FCC digests volumes of argument and thinks about the Senate, where, before the close of the last session, Montana's Burton Kendall...