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Word: finished (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...preceding year. Since I have been here. I have never seen a defeated team drawn up the hill. Now Navy Games are a thing of the past, for a time at least, and some other game must be chosen for the final chapter. I hope that I shall finish my course with my personal tradition unbroken; never to have seen an Army team drawn up the hill after a final defeat. And with all due respect to dear old Harvard. I hope there are no intermediate defeats...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tradition at West Point Places the Plebe Lower Socially Than the Dust He Grovels In | 10/20/1928 | See Source »

...life-career in the salt mines and a chance to woo by proxy the foreign princess and bring her back for the real prince to wed. He chooses the latter and naturally falls in love with the lady he is supposed to deceive. It looks like tears for the finish until, on the day of the wedding, the real prince decides to abdicate and the actor, who looks just like him, goes to the altar with the lady and becomes a prince and her husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 15, 1928 | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

...order of finish was as follows: C. Smith (H. C.), G. M. Barrie '32, N. P. Hallowell '32, B. E. Estes '32, W. G. Coogan '32, H. B. Veatch '32, W. O'Connell (H. C.), R. W. Seaver '32, J. Holland (H. C.), R. B. Murphy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY HARRIERS DEFEAT H. C. CONTINGENT | 10/13/1928 | See Source »

Captain J. L. Reid '29 won the race by a scant few inches from his team mate L. H. Flacksman '29 in 28 minutes and 30 seconds. This is considered fairly good time for the five and one half mile course. The order of finish for the first ten was as follows: J. L. Reid '29, L. H. Flaksman '29, R. C. Aldrich '31, W. Madden (H. C.), A. G. Thacher '29, T. Casson (H. C.), F. B. Thumber '30, D. Gatzenmaier (H. C.), F. W. Hyde '30, W. Beane...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY HARRIERS DEFEAT H. C. CONTINGENT | 10/13/1928 | See Source »

Favorites seldom finish in golf tournaments. There are too many chances for them to lose and 18 holes are not enough to inevitably determine superiority. But, at Hot Springs last week, there were six onetime champions in the medal play and several more future champions. One of these many favorites, it was safe to say, would win the finals. Such proved to be the case when Virginia Van Wie, who uses a mashie better than any other woman golfer, came up against Glenna Collett in the last round...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Hot Springs | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

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