Word: finish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...debut, Norman's program was by no means all apple pie: a Handel sonata, a Bach partita for unaccompanied violin, two difficult Paganini caprices. By the time he was halfway through the Handel, critics were wondering at the sureness of his phrasing and rhythmic pulse. When he had finished with the Paganinis and a blazing performance of Sarasate's tricky Zigeunerweisen, there was no question about the finish of his technique. Twenty-year-old Norman Carol was more than a comer: he had arrived...
...decided to launch their own fund-raising campaign. The student council called a meeting of the student body, and undergraduate speakers presented the facts. Said Student Council President Louis Salebra, Rutlander and veteran: if the college failed to finish out the year, students who planned to transfer elsewhere for their junior and senior years (and most of them did) might lose an entire year's credits...
Harvard's lead had widened so much near the finish line that the large crowd which banked both sides of the river showed considerably more interest in the battle for second place than in the Crimson finish...
Rowing the Henley distance of a mile and five-sixteenths, the varsity fifties were impressive as they took a quick load and held it. The margin was half a length going under the Harvard bridge, and by the time the finish line was crossed the Crimson had an open-water victory of ever a length...
...jayvee lightweights won their race by the biggest margin of any of the after over MIT on the Charles by trimming noon's seven crew races. Although MIT got the better start the Crimson soon overhauled the easily tiring Engineers to finish in 6:55.3, ten seconds and two and a half lengths ahead...