Word: finished
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Derby, Conn., the Yale crew, rowing beautifully, beat Princeton and Cornell without drama to win the Carnegie Cup. Cornell was four and a half lengths back at the finish and Princeton two lengths behind Cornell...
...appears to be assured of first place since he has done 23 and 3-10 seconds. Nichols of the University of California. Wells and Marsters of Dartmouth and Kieselhorst of Yale will probably be fighting Tupper for second place. Tupper has an excellent chance to follow Payne across the finish line, as he took the Dartmouth event two weeks ago, shaving a fifth of a second from Wells' old record...
...inscription and I might add, a very large majority of the American contributors do also. ... In America the lives of so-called free American citizens are made unbearable by those two pests-the professional pacifists and the professional prohibitionists. . . . The only thing I desire is to be allowed to finish my work and hand over the keys to the university. Then the authorities can do as they please-in fact tear down the whole thing if they so desire...
...which the boy is innocent. Taking the only way out, Captain Ferreol says he did the murder. The judge does not believe him; and the past is about to be revealed when the real murderer (a dark, burly gamekeeper, played ably by Raoul Paoli) accidently confesses in a dramatic finish...
...strokes on Carnegie Lake the Columbia crew got a quarter of a length ahead of Princeton and Pennsylvania and increased its lead as the three boats, black figurines, moved between green banks covered with shouting people, over water turned to a fire by the sunset, until at the finish Columbia was two and a half lengths ahead of Penn with Princeton back in the ruck...