Word: finished
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Haggerty '27, waded over the finish line after running a great race to lead R. G. Luttman '28, to the tape. Luttman, who with A. H. O'Neil '28, starred on last year's Freshman team, did splendid work in his first University encounter and seems likely to be a champion before he graduates...
Coming down the last mile along the riverbank Luttman was in the lead, but near the Cambridge Boat Club, Haggerty began to draw even. Twenty-five yards from the finish the intercollegiate mile champion passed the Sophomore...
...four stories in height, the same as Massachusetts Hall. Fifty-eight students will be accommodated, in suites consisting of two bedrooms, a study, and private bath, except in two cases where the suites will be for single students. The plan of the suites and the interior finish will resemble that in Lionel and Mower Halls, while the exterior will resemble Hollis. The new dormitory will, however, be more than twice as long and considerably narrower, the dimensions being 30 feet...
...Detroit has been right in its optimism. However, in more jaundiced and possibly less informed quarters, doubt on this score is frequently expressed; but it will not do to overlook the many refinements and economies possible with increased production. An example is in car-painting. The adoption of cellulose finish combinations now makes it possible to paint a car and turn it out within 24 hours. Even the Cadillac, which formerly took four to six weeks to paint, can now be finished in less than seven days. Such economies speed and cheapen production and at the same time hold inventories...
...years ago a young French doctor, Henri Vadon, was assisting at an operation. An inadvertent movement of the patient drove deep into his hand the point of a syringe known to contain deadly bacilli. Immediate treatment would probably have saved him, but he chose to finish the operation without attending to himself. As a result his arm became infected and had to be amputated last week. "For his devotion to duty under exceptional circumstances" the French Government caused Dr. Vadon to be decorated with the cordon of the Legion of Honor, on the day after his arm was amputated...