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Word: finish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beauty salon and the fashion magazine, U.S. women had started wearing their hair short. Harper's Bazaar explained: "Manes and mops are being chopped . . . and shaped . . . into slicks and swirls. The wisps of the feathercut are out of mind. In every case, the look is small, the finish is polish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, May 10, 1948 | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

Harvey Love's yearlings will be seeking to gain some solace from their third place finish behind M.I.T. and Cornell in their curtain raiser last week. Main reason for the squad's poor showing was the sudden illness of the number 6 man, "Swannie" Swanson midway through the course...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Underdog Eight Rows Navy, Penn Tomorrow | 5/7/1948 | See Source »

...Bolles will consider himself fortunate if his pupils appear at the finish line of the 1 and 5/16 mile course in first place Saturday afternoon, despite the fact that Jud Gale is back warming his old number five slide again...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Bolles Not Depressed Over Defeat by Cornell | 5/6/1948 | See Source »

Lowly-touted Adams won an unexpected victory over Lowell and Leverett in the second race, and turned in the best time of the day in the process. The three boats crossed the finish line separated by only a length apiece, the winner being clocked...

Author: By David G. Braaten, | Title: Indians Conquer Varsity Nine, 9-6; Eliot, Adams, Puritan Eights Win | 5/5/1948 | See Source »

...Saturday morning at 7:15 o'clock Gardner's fiancee, Polly Auger, trundled her hoop across the Wellesley College finish line in a history-making tie for first place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Waban Hoops Doom Busy Schooler to Early Wedlock | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

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