Word: finished
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that to the common or garden sort of outsider, who has been hearing-and sometimes saying himself-that the colleges are not turning out writers of good English, this display affords a most encouraging answer. Indeed, there is apparent in most of this collection a degree of literary finish and sophistication which some weary old hands might envy and emulate...
This afternoon at 4 o'clock Dr. Howe and Coach Bert Haines will enter four of their Freshman crews--A. C. M. 1, E. F. M. 1, I. F. M. 1, and A. C. M. 3--in a race over the mile course on the basin. The finish will be at the Harvard Bridge. Owing to the stormy weather prevailing Saturday, the yearling contest scheduled for that date, could not be held and has been postponed till today...
...tympanum of the Cathedral of Strassburg, the entrance to the Cathedral of Freiburg, and the Berlin statue of the Great Elector. American artists have so deftly painted the casts that the very rust of the iron hinges, the polish of the bronze, the color of the stone, or the finish of the wood appear in the copy. There are also excellent electrotype reproductions of German work in gold and copies of paintings by Van Eyck, Durer, and Holbein. The whole collection, containing as it does examples of German art from the first to the eighteenth centuries and arranged...
...crew number 1 was pressed to the limit to win from A. C. M. 2 in the initial contest, but the smoothness and precision of the first boat proved too much for their rivals and served to place three quarters of a length between the two shells at the finish. A. C. M. 3 won the decision from the fourth autumn crew by the same distance. The second experienced football crew, pitted against the inexperienced grid oarsmen, provided by far the closest race of the afternoon. The two shells ploughed their way through the waves on comparatively even terms throughout...
...stiff wind, combined with snow, which fell during the latter part of the afternoon Autumn material crew number 7 came under the Harvard Bridge two lengths in the lead, a last-minute spurt serving to add the second lap of water as the shell shot past the finish flags. A. C. M. numbers 5, 8, 6 and 9 passed the line in the order named...