Word: finished
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some of his followers. Not long ago, he proposed at his own expense to erect a statue to Galileo, famed scientist, equally famed as a heretic. Pisa went mad. Nevertheless, he is extremely popular and is known as the "War Cardinal" because he advocated a fight-to-the-finish policy. He is a great friend of the Royal Family and it is rumored that Premier Mussolini once suggested making him a Senator, an unprecedented occurrence since 1870, which would have gone far to heal the long quarrel between Government and Pope...
...Cleveland, spoke before a large crowd in the Chamber of Commerce Auditorium, declared that he had smashed his models because he had heard that the Memorial Association, headed by Hollins N. Randolph, Atlanta lawyer, had asked his superintendent to complete his sculptures. Said he: "The man they wanted to finish my work is a carpenter, not a sculptor. He would be unable to do a decent line of work." Meanwhile, talk went on in Atlanta that he would be extradited from North Carolina. To effect this, the Memorial Association swore out a new warrant, charging simple larceny and larceny from...
...pouring on Harvard Square and three hundred students out parading in the rain, soaked outside and in. They would stop every block or so to brace up their spirits, and keep on marching. If they stopped for the kind of bracers they get today, no one would ever finish the parade...
About two hundred spectators saw the University Wrestling Team go down to a 14-11 defeat before the Columbia team in an exciting match at Hemenway Gymnasium on Saturday. The score stood 11-11 until the very finish of the match when, in the second half of an overtime period, Awlick of Columbia received the referee's decision over C. R. Bradford '26 of the University team. It was the first match lost by the University this season...
...have a Business School at Harvard, of all places?" asked Roland Young, principal of "Beggar on Horseback". By all means educate your business men, I quite approve attempts to raise their standard of intelligence. Let Harvard educate them and a Business School finish them, elsewhere." Mr. Young, an Englishman with an extraordinary American theatrical record, is at present occupied, in the travesty "Beggar on Horseback", in lampooning contemporary commerical America...