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Word: finish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Those that managed to win their matches were Henry Ritter, Jr. Robert M. Thompson, Donal D. Peddie, Julian M. Sobin, while Fred R. Sawyer and Richard S. Suter, the former of the South End Team, were unable to finish their match...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOUTH END YARDLINGS WIN | 3/15/1938 | See Source »

They chuckled and even laughed aloud between phrases of their most damaging admissions. As Vishinsky would get half through a sentence the prisoner he was supposed to be grilling would snatch the words out of his mouth and finish the sentence before the prosecutor could-and since it was the agreed sentence Vishinsky let it go at that. The usual dramatic effects Vishinsky has standardized were also given. Thus when a prisoner named Prokopy Zubarev testified that in the remote past the Tsarist police gave him 15 rubles ($7.50) on two successive occasions, Vishinsky responded with his menacing stage whisper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Lined With Despair | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

...after an exciting nose-after-nose struggle down the stretch, was not Charles S. Howard's Seabiscuit, but Maxwell Howard's young Stagehand, winner of the Santa Anita Derby the week before (TIME, March 7). Nelson Howard's entry, a long shot among the 18 contestants, finished fourth, two lengths behind Jerry Louchheim's highly touted Pompoon. But Seabiscuit, although he had lost the $91,450 first prize by a nose in a camera finish, had lost little of his prestige. Carrying 30 lb. more than the winner and forcing him to a track record, beaten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPORT: Big Red Dynasty | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

Four starters and two substitutes finish their Harvard basketball careers tonight in the concluding game of what may be the Crimson's best hoop season, against the Eli quintet in the Indoor Athletic Building at 8:45 o'clock...

Author: By Sheffield West, | Title: Varsity Basketeers to Seek Revenge Tonight as Blue Hoopsters Threaten | 3/12/1938 | See Source »

...Wehe's pool, Princeton, and intercollegiate record of 1:34.5 in the 150 backstroke showed that he wasn't fooling. Pressed hard by Graham Cummin, the Tiger sophomore dug hard for six laps to finish about half a lap ahead of the field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson's Top Swimmers Wash Stripes Off Tiger Men in Sensational Victory | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

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