Word: finished
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President commute the punishment of Gerald Chapman, mail robber, so that Gerald Chapman, murderer, might be hanged by the State of Connecticut. Mr. Chapman refused the commutation and denounced it as an abuse of clemency power. His lawyers will seek in the courts to establish his right to finish his 25-year sentence in the Federal penitentiary from which he escaped. If they succeed, his hanging will have to wait...
...runner in crimson (Willard L. Tibbets, Harvard). But now, as he turned his head, Tibbets saw Loucks blow a bead of sweat from the end of his nose, lift his chin and drink a great gulp of air. Yes, in another moment Loucks would sprint. Tibbets could see the finish, the crowd around the tape. It was just too far away; if he let himself out now, he could not make it; Loucks with his superior stamina would catch him. Still, it was a chance; he sent down a command to his legs...
...race between Tibbetts and Loucks of Syracuse, was a close one the whole length of the course and until the finish a very uncertain one. It was the Crimson leader who crossed the line a bare three yards in the lead, with Hillman of Maine, the nearest competitor to the two, 75 yard behind...
...Pittsburgh man, contrary to expectation, was the next to finish after Hillman. This was Kerr, a man of no great experience, and a new addition to the Pittsburgh squad; yet he outran his veteran teammates Corbett and Howell by several places...
...superior quickness and accuracy of muscular response, he seemed for a while unbeatable. In 1893, 1894, 1896, 1897, he held the title. In 1894 a scorching Irishman named Goodbody beat the speedy Hovey, the rare Hobart, and Larned the Nonpareil, but when he met Wrenn he met his finish. In 1897 a strapping Englishman named Eaves (whose name, people said, was really Heaves), crossed the sea and beat the pride of the States, but Wrenn made him drop games like so many...