Word: finally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week 23-year-old Joe Burk was well rewarded. In the final of the Diamond Sculls, dipping his oars 45 times a minute, he streaked through the water as if he had an outboard motor attached to his 26-lb. shell, not only won the coveted race but did it in 8 min. 2 sec.-eight seconds faster than the Henley record set in 1905. Only three Americans before him had ever won the Diamond Sculls : Edward Ten Eyck in 1897, B. Hunting Howell in 1898-99, and Walter Hoover...
...ready to adjourn. Out it marched to the World's Fair, busily abuilding, made an honorary life member of onetime Teacher Eleanor Roosevelt. Presiding over the convention's final meeting, Mrs. Roosevelt introduced the main speaker. Said she: "It is the privilege of a presiding officer to make a speech. I will not avail myself of that privilege. May I present the President of the United States...
...report on A. T. & T., suggesting among other things a 25% cut in telephone rates (TIME, April 11). A. T. & T. claimed that it had been refused the right to cross-examine witnesses and offer a prepared defense. Last week. FCC agreed to consider such defense before submitting its final report to Congress...
...Silver Magnet Grant Shepherd does not answer these questions, or explain exactly what finally happened to the mine. Midway through his book he begins to write less about the lost pleasures of Batopilas, and more about long vacations, about sprees, about squabbles with mean-spirited natives, about the petty thievery among workmen, the stupidity of newcomers, the pusillanimity of the Wilson administration, etc. His story becomes a monotonous recital of how the Shepherd brothers put tough customers in their places, of his political opinions and longings for good days long-past. But if its final impression is one of confusion...
...last reports "Dev's" Fianna Fail party had captured 70 of the 138 seats, the Fine Gael party of his oldtime opponent, former President William T. Cosgrave, 40 seats, the Labor party six and the Independents seven. Under Eire's involved system of proportional representation, the final tabulation will be a matter of days but observers held that of the 15 unconfirmed seats, five would go to the Government, the same number to the Cosgrave group, and the remaining four to Labor...