Word: finish
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Stony Road. If the Communists should get control of the Davis movement, that would be its finish as a popular crusade, for it now gets most of its strength from the fact that its ideas are tied to no national policy. If the people who support it have any one common denominator, it is that their longing for peace is so strong as to upset reason and good sense. Their thirst for peace blinds them to the fact that the only way to peace is a stony road which involves constant risk of war. If a popular peace movement should...
...five days the debate raged. Governors and generals flew in from the hinterland to join in. On New Year's Eve, some 30 leaders gathered for an arm-waving, tear-shedding showdown in the Gimo's red brick residence. The fight-to-the-finish faction tried hard to delete words implying resignation from Chiang's New Year's message. They won out on two points: conditions for peace which the Communists could scarcely be expected to accept, and a delay in the Gimo's abdication...
...first-termers from across the Charles looked like competition in only two events--the dive and the 200-yd. freestyle relay, both of which they won. The latter, a thrilling race from start to finish, grew more exciting as the Crimson almost came from behind...
Selection of candidates and choice of the problems they are to work on are left to the University. Recipients are not committed to work for the company after they finish their fellowships...
Harvard, Yale and Middlebury were the only Eastern colleges in last week's competition. Western State finished second in the tourney and also contributed the top individual competitor, Crosby Perry-Smith. Perry-Smith took first place in both the cross-country and the jump and amassed 388.00 points. Other teams to finish ahead of Harvard were Utah, which placed third; Denver, fourth; Colorado, fifth; California, sixth; Wisconsin, seventh; Nevada, eighth; and Wyoming, ninth...