Word: finish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...They're approaching Cliffside . . . they're through . . . they're stepping along, folks . . . they're at Shady . . . they're riding the curve . . . good in, good out . . . they're at Zig Zag and they don't stay there long . . . they're riding the finish . . . they're down...
...Bill Casey used his brake for the first time, and the sled ground to a stop, about a city block past the finish line. They made the descent three times more before they pinned down the 1949 four-man bobsled championship. Average time: 1:13.32. Average speed: 46.8 m.p.h. Afterwards, Benham's No. 3 man, Jim Atkinson, felt his face and grinned: "Boy, was that wind cold." Somebody remarked: "It's all over but the drinking." Said Driver Benham: "I haven't had a drink in a long time . . . you can't drink and drive...
...story of Charley Gray is the story of millions of decent, middle-class U.S. citizens who are doing well, have a fire in their heels to do still better, and in their thoughtful moments suffer a fugitive feeling of discontentment from start to finish. Charley and Nancy have been to college; they have a house and a car, even a membership in Sycamore Park's second-best country club. All they want at the moment (besides the vice-presidency) is a newer car, membership in the Hawthorn Hill Club, prep school for the children and, later, when they...
...things of life (including, among others, three cars, two Scotches before dinner), Marquand is by no means contemptuous of money and is mightily pleased that he has made the financial grade. But like Charley Gray, he knows that something is missing. He wishes there were something more at the finish than an annuity and a new station wagon. And he is no more sure than Charley Gray what that something is. Says Marquand: "I've been so warped and conditioned by life that I haven't found anything that will satisfy...
...first phase of the production of the 1950 Album will be completed today when members of the 1949 Album and the 1950 Class Committee finish interviewing applicants for the '50 Album post...