Word: finish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME-Reader Winston finish the story, as she recently wrote it in a letter to me: "On July 22, I wandered into an art gallery on the left bank in Paris and was attracted to some paintings by G. Sekoto. The name meant nothing to me-and I knew I had already spent more money on my trip than I had planned-but I also knew I had to have some of his paintings. I hesitated, then sacrificed some of the dresses I had bought in Paris to buy two paintings from the gallery's owner...
...publishers, Charles Scribner's Sons, told the story: Hemingway suffered blood poisoning in February from a fragment of shotgun wadding that lodged in his eye while he was shooting wild fowl in Italy. Doctors gave him a short time to live. Feeling that he could not finish the novel "of large proportions" that he had been working on for years, he started writing a new one, went right on with it after throwing off his illness. The 300-page book's subject: World War II. Its title: still unchosen...
Alumnus Lane Barton pushed the pace up to 36 for the final sprint, and almost succeeded in pulling back Tech, but his boat lacked the drive to overtake them before reaching the finish line at Long-fellow Bridge...
...varsity football team is going to finish the season with a better than 500 record, the first thing it has to do is beat Dartmouth. And that will take a lot of doing, as the Indians are a 10-point favorite...
...past the tower, Vag heard the church clock finish out its little four-phrase tune, and then ring twice. That for the kickoff. The next swallow was easier. He reached a glass out of the bookcase, filled it half-full, and gulped it down. This was better, and he repeated the process. Then he thought of the tickets in his pocket. Vag paused for a moment, watching a leaf spiral down past his window, then ran for the closet and grabbed his coat. He sprinted down the stairs and started across the quad, running easily, with the bottle carefully cradled...