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Word: finish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Allie Reynolds twirled a masterful two bitter, striking out nine Dodgers and walking but four, in the fifth game all year that he has been able to finish...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Homer Gives Yanks Lead in Series | 10/6/1949 | See Source »

...Brooks it was a running battle against scattered showers as the Cooney crowd offered but token opposition, taking up every half-inning with pop-fly drills and slowing the proceedings to a dusky finish at 5:03 p.m., or two minutes before the sun was scheduled to set. Nevertheless, the sun had little or nothing to do with the happenings...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: The Sporting Scene | 9/30/1949 | See Source »

...showed up. Twentyeight were expected. The list of seasoned men is headed by Captain Joe Leeming, Joe Rosen, Dick White, Alden Albee, Henry Everett, and Bill Baker. Baker was hampered by a sore foot most of last season but appears sound again. White was the first Harvard runner to finish in the Big Three last year...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: Jaakko, 11 Harriers Gird For Cross-Country Season | 9/29/1949 | See Source »

Today's registration deadline will finish off two days of moving into dormitories for Radcliffe upperclassmen. Although freshmen have been dorm-situated since Thursday, upper classmen were barred from the halls until 3 p.m. yesterday. All Moors Hall residents also had to delay moving in until yesterday as a late opening date was scheduled for the 'Cliffe's newest dormitory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 635 to Register Today at Radcliffe | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...Wizened little Johnny Longden, rider of more winners (3,402) than any other U.S. jockey, who interrupted a visit to his native England to ride - and finish last -aboard a 66-to-1 shot in Doncaster's historic St. Leger Stakes. "It was a good race, what I saw of it," chirped 39-year-old Longden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Lost | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

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