Word: finish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...motorcade of 300 bright floats, accompanied by even brighter fire engines, motorized troops and limousines, wound through mildly fascinated Manhattan crowds last week to a "World's Fair Rehearsal" in Flushing Meadow Park. As the rolling snowball of Fair publicity thus gained momentum one year from the finish line, Manhattanites began to be aware of another ball-"biggest ever built by man" -which will be white, hollow, 200 ft. in diameter, 18 stories high, and the Theme Centre of the World's Fair. The steel frames of this Perisphere and the Trylon (a three-sided obelisk...
...crews began to lengthen out by the quarter-mile the Crimson crept up. A sprint at the half-mile closed up the gap and the Harvard eight kept on for a half-length lead. With both sets of blades working about 32, gradually increasing up to 36 at the finish, the boat stroked by Vince Balley crossed...
...Northrop's career. Dogged by successive cases of illness he has seldom had an even chance to fulfill expectations. In last summer's Oxford-Cambridge meet he approached his worth when he did 4:19 behind Godfrey Brown. But Saturday was the best of all when he crossed the finish line five yards ahead of Rhode Island's Stan Holt. Northrop's right shoe came off at the beginning of the last quarter...
First runner to cross the finish line of the Boston Marathon last week was 85-year-old Peter Foley. Loping along Commonwealth Avenue, his arms hanging loosely at his sides, his pink-striped trunks ballooning in the April breeze, gnome-like...
Five minutes later, 33-year-old Leslie Pawson, Pawtucket playground instructor, bounded over the finish line to become the fourth two-time winner in the 42-year history of the famed Boston race. His time-over the grueling, hilly course from Hopkinton to Boston...