Word: finished
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crackers sputtering under tin cans in millions of back yards or the blazing sun which, always a little sultry as if stained with gunpowder, wheels over the continent, is the tradition which dictates that the baseball teams which lead the two major leagues on that day will finish in the same order when the season is over. Generally the tradition works out. Last year it was the Pirates in the National League, the Yankees in the American. This year it is the Cardinals and the Yankees. Critics who this week, on the Fourth of July, read the standings...
...that stretch California and Columbia fenced with each other. They went under the bridge and out of sight. When they came out, California was leading by a quarter of a length. Slowly the space became almost a length and suddenly the sirens of the observation boats blew for the finish. California's time lowered by 17 seconds a record that had stood for 27 years...
...first two or three to get round. Flamingo was still in front but now Felstead came round him into the turn and raced for the wire with Flamingo losing ground. Black Watch came out of the pack and pressed up along the rail to finish third...
...clock, standard time, on Friday afternoon, the two shells will lead away from the starting flag opposite Red Top for the four mile grind which will finish at the railroad bridge just outside of Kew London. At 9.30 o'clock, standard time, that morning, the two Freshman eights will row upstream over the middle two miles of the four mile course, starting from the flag a mile below the submarine base and finishing a mile above the base. Half an hour after the first year race the Crimson and Blue Javee shells will fight it out over the same course...
...both the Harvard and Yale camps these last few days will be spent in smoothing out, the rough spots in the crews, and in trying to give the combinations more finish. Coach E. J. Brown '96 has been working especially hard on getting his oarsmen to get a lot of snap in the finish of their strokes, having the crew do most of its hard pulling aft of the outriggers. The style of Leader's crews is just the opposite with the shell getting most of its drive on the catch of the stroke...