Word: finish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...survey in May's Yahoo! Life Magazine has placed the College a long way from even its third place finish in this year's U.S. News and World Report's annual college survey. The University was ranked 64th out of 100 schools in a survey of how well colleges use the Internet for educational purposes...
Then, with only 500 meters left, the Quakers made their move and began to inch back on the Crimson. But as the three boats sprinted to the finish, Harvard was able to hold off the charging Penn eight by a half-length at the line...
...people up," he said "It's not that we ever want to dissuade people from talking about problems, it's just that we want them to finish the problems separately...
Mick Countee sensed the emptiness because after he broke his neck in a diving accident, while he was a Harvard student, his mother told him, "Son, if Franklin Roosevelt could be President, you can finish your education." Countee, a black, not only finished but also went on to get a law degree from Georgetown and an M.B.A. from Harvard. "Not a day went by," he said last week, "that I did not think of Roosevelt and Roy Campanella." Campanella was the Brooklyn Dodgers catcher who was paralyzed in a car accident but never despaired in public...
...only just started to build up her self-esteem. "I hurt myself because I didn't love myself," she says, then proceeds to analyze herself in the third-person style favored by Bob Dole. "I didn't like Mary, I didn't care about Mary, Mary didn't finish [high school] and did a lot of stuff she had no business doing because she didn't care about herself...