Word: finished
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Heron of Reading, Pa., finished two strokes behind Compston. Aubrey Boomer of St. Cloud, France, who looked like a winner, blew up near the finish...
...beautiful buildings of Spanish architecture surrounded by beautiful gardens of ever-blooming, gorgeous flowers and orchards of orange, peach and cherry trees. The interior of these houses, one of which presents the aspect of an old cathedral in Southern Spain, and the other three-guest houses*-are furnished and finished to harmonize with the exterior of these beautiful buildings. Old doors and door frames, mantels, beds, tables, cabinets, priceless wood carvings, paintings, tapestries from famous places in Italy, Spain and France of the 13th and 16th centuries are a part of the finish and furniture...
...Coxswain Stewart of Yale pulled out his red handkerchief, which told the eight boys facing him that they would have to sprint like mad. But they had been sprinting all along, and so had California. The rubber band contracted to a quarter of a length, at the finish. . . . It was decided; the eight boys and Coxswain Blessing from California (University of) will represent the U. S. at the Olympic Games...
Meanwhile, off Sandhamn, Sweden, Sherman Hoyt of Manhattan sailed H. B. Plant's Saleema to win the first of a series of international six-metre yacht races for the Scandinavian Gold Cup. Close was the finish, with a Dutch boat second, a Finnish third, a Swedish fourth...
COQUETTE-Helen Hayes as the favorite who makes a fine finish in a small-town tragedy (TIME...