Word: finished
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...purse of $2.500, and the committee had stayed up all night arguing because they thought the sum was too great. Ten thousand dollars was the most I ever received, and today a man gets half a million for fighting two or three minutes. We used to fight to the finish...
Perhaps the best race of the afternoon was the University long-distance race. This contest was unquestionably conceded to the University at the start, but proved close at the finish. As the track team this year is exceptionally well equipped in distance men, the result proved rather disappointing. Even without Chute, star miler and cross-country man, who did not run because he found the distance too short, the Tech runners gave the University a good fight...
...Garner of Texas. "How long will it take the gentleman to finish that picture?" (Laughter...
...Gubbins, officially declared dead by the War Office: May Ediss as his step-mother; and Alan Mowbray as Lord Leicester, alias "Spoofy", the shell-shocked pal of Jimmy, all turned in performances the genuineness of which completely wiped out the memory of all their former roles. From start to finish their histrionic powers functioned without a discordant note...
...them assemble if they want to. Let them start something. I'll be here at the finish...