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Word: finish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coach Tom Bolles, winding up crew activity for the fall, started his five eights just below Cottage Farm Bridge, with the Leavitt unit pulling ahead and leading all the way to the finish opposite MIT's sailing pavilion. Stroke George Lodge held the winners' beat at about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Leavitt's Eight Places First In Intra Varsity Crew Meet | 11/12/1948 | See Source »

While several Varsity and Freshman squads finish their fall scheduling, the move into the great indoors will spread a wide variety of sports before non-team members...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winter Sports Commence This Week | 11/10/1948 | See Source »

...young musician is going off to study engineering: "That means you're not returning here . . . You'll work in a factory and forget our gay song." Everyone is silent for a moment, thinking. Then the young Komsomolets replies: "Don't be sad; wait till I finish the Institute. There's plenty for an engineer to do here too." This cheers everybody, somewhat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: To Rear Communists | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

Died. Dr. Horace G. Smithy, 34, the surgeon who performed a daring heart operation (TIME, Feb. 16) to remove rheumatic fever scar tissue; of the same heart condition and other ailments, before he could finish training other surgeons in the technique that might have saved his own life; in Charleston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 8, 1948 | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

...Meredith fashioned the stylized poetic sequence, Modern Love, fifty 16-line sonnets of what Sassoon calls "highly perfected workmanship, constructed as a finely woven monodrama, and abounding in memorable passages and variety of mood." Poet Sassoon had thought that it must have taken him at least three years to finish the work; to his astonishment, he learned when he began his biography that Meredith had written it in three months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Everything but Simplicity | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

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