Word: finish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Howard Press (circ. 500,000). They politely doubted that there was room for three. Editor E. T. Leech of the Press welcomed the newcomer with a warning: it would start "under a heavy handicap ... in a race in which economic factors make it almost certain that only two can finish...
...three non-legislative members appointed by the Governor were pro-Van Waters, and intent on whitewashing her administration. The commission met a couple of times and visited Framingham, but refused to give LoPresti's accusations any support. In November, the commission decided that the new Legislature would have to finish the job. Over LoPresti's violent protests, Dr. Van Waters got a one-day hearing on November 22, at which she had a chance to defend here self. LoPresti angrily charged that Governor Bradford delayed commission activity and "coerced" it into giving the hearing. Nothing conclusive came...
...show will be a duel between the Crimson's Henry Foster and Army's Charley Oliver. Oliver is currently a ranking players in intercollegiate squash. Last December he eliminated the best college players to finish second in the Union Boat Club's squash tournament...
...different kind of race. With supreme confidence, Gehrmann was planning to ignore Slykhuis and Bengtsson. He would run against the clock, not the competition: a fast 58-second first quarter, a 2-minute half, a 3:04 three quarters, and a record-breaking 4:05 finish. The race called for circling the Garden's banked board track eleven times...
...good news came when John Gay returned to Harvard to finish off his senior year. Gay was a hard-hitting, razzle-dazzle saber man who slashed his way up to the Number One spot on last year's team, was elected captain, and suddenly lit out from the College before getting a degree...