Word: finish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Today's typical German university man is a war veteran, 26 years old, intensely eager to finish his education and start earning a living. What leisure he has, the student usually spends in keeping alive-rebuilding his shattered house, making forays to the countryside for food, trading in the black market. He is ten times as likely to have T.B. as in normal times; the odds are one in five that he is a cripple or amputee...
...with impressive victories over Georgetown and Syracuse, then lost on successive Saturdays to Dartmouth, Brown, and Colgate. Harvard's initial triumph over Columbia has been followed by setbacks at the hands of Cornell, Army, and Dartmouth. Today's game will have a tremendous effect on the way both clubs finish the season...
That's all I didn't see this week. Next week I'll finish the story, and maybe it will be less sullen, because I'm going down there with a telescope, and so help me God, if I don't see something then, I'll become a sports writer...
With sandwiches made by his wife packed into a car, French expects to make his run on a precision schedule and finish at 20 Walker st. before the 10 p.m. dormitory deadline. He is allowing ten minutes leeway for the first few days in order to serve the mobs of ravenous women he hopes to attract...
Previous athletic relationships between Harvard and Radcliffe have generally been limited to crew. During the war, an Annex outfit whipped an informal Harvard eight when the Crimson boat mistakenly ceased rowing one bridge short of the finish line...