Word: finished
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pounding to pieces on the reefs of poverty. The first reef is Paris; the second, Port Said; finally the South Seas. It all came from a play called Great Music in which the boy finally gets leprosy and is given a year or more of life in which to finish his orchestral symphony. The cinema people, for no reason at all, have given the leprosy to his inoffensive little native girl. Five months later they have cured her to make way for the happy ending. Richard Barthelmess played the boy rather badly...
...were left-Kingsbury, No. 6; Wilson, No. 3; Sprock, No. 7. Pennsylvania was beautifully schooled, perfect in form. Nobody thought of Columbia. The race began. Pennsylvania led. Yale was second, rowing with power but somewhat raggedly. Columbia bided her time. On went the shells. Yale sprinted, passed Pennsylvania. The finish came in sight. Pennsylvania, it was clear, was beaten. Columbia? Her men, far down the course, thrashed the water in vain. Yale...
Coach Stevens expressed his deep regref over the accident to the Pennsylvania boat. We were not as smooth as Pennsylvania", he said yesterday in commenting on the races, "and we did not have the finish they had. This is because we are much further behind in our development than they are, and because they stress and early season crew while we are continually pointing to the New London race...
...Crimson boat crossed the finish line in seven minutes and five seconds, four seconds ahead of the M. I. T. boat. All of the Crimson oarsmen remained sitting up in the boat, and gave the impression that there was considerable reserve strength left...
...performance in Northampton, which broke a precedent of 81 years standing, was lauded in a review by the Smith College Weekly. "With a great deal of that elusive quality called 'charm' and with notable finish and literary excellence, the Harvard Hasty Pudding Club's Laugh It Off' captured the applause as well as the hearts of its audience," declared the reviewer...