Word: finish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cantor told the audience that he had quite a trip here. When he left home, his wife asked him where he was going. He replied that he was headed for Harvard. "You'd better finish grammar school first," he was told...
...went on to confide to the book folk that she is thinking of writing a book about the old buff brick house at No. 10 Downing Street, the most famed address in the Empire. She announced: "It will begin with its first occupant, a daughter of Charles II, and finish with the black cat. That black cat has appeared at every opportune moment in recent weeks...
...honestly say that we have never encountered an intentionally tricky or unreasonably difficult examination. Allowances are always made for students who obviously know their work but do not have time to finish all the questions...
Professional Golfer Gene Sarazen, one-time British and twice U. S. Open Champion, recently said: "Any man is crazy to take up golf as a profession. . . ." Professional golfers receive no salary for their competitive performances, are rewarded only when they outplay 100 to 500 opponents and finish in the money. When a professional wins the National Open championship, No. 1 U. S. golf event, he receives only $1,000 cash-about the same amount a second-rate prize fighter gets as a preliminary attraction to a world-cham-pionship fight-plus advertising which has no fixed cash value...
Eliot won by one point turning in a low score of 32 compared with Leverett's 33. Kirkland came third with 56, Lowell 63, Dudley 84, Winthrop 88, and Dunster 93. Adams House failed to finish...