Word: finished
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...excellent thing but the layman has a habit of discounting it after the first three miles in favor of plain guts, and though it is not always easy to see clearly or think distinctly at New London one thing simple to grasp would be a Harvard crew crossing the finish first. There are many kinds of systems. Some are too new, others too old. There is too little of some and too much of others. But the only system that merits support is a winning system...
...throughout the gruelling mile and seven-eights course, gave the Freshman crew a well-deserved victory over Coach Muller's University eight Saturday afternoon on the basin. Nearly, two lengths of open water bore mute testimony to the decisive character of the defeat as the shells filed across the finish line...
...control are forcing America as well as Europe to gradual changes of external policy, to revisions of government, to paternalism rather than individualism. "Hell and Maria" has put his back against a steam roller; but he will have plenty of assistants. The surviving individualists are preparing for a finish-fight, and if their methods are sometimes quaint, their cause is no less worthy of support...
...Famous Mrs. Pair. Adapted from the play by James Forbes, and, on the whole, well-adapted, except near the finish. There the customary race between the midnight express and the speeding automobile just had to come in, to be followed by the customary fisticuffs in the hotel-room between the well-manicured villyun and the simple but hearty brother of the ingenue...
...third crews, the rival strokes, Brown and Amory, keeping their shells pretty well abreast of each other. Spurt matched spurt for the last couple of hundred yards, but the third eight, rowing only seven-eighths of a mile, had the advantage of endurance and pulled out at the finish a scant quarter length ahead. The Junior eight finished three lengths behind...