Word: finished
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Conference members fumed at his absence, threatened to bolt all agreements, start a rate war to the finish unless Bernstein was brought into line. But how could he be brought into line when he was not even present? Frantic messages were sent to Bernstein's Hamburg headquarters, demanding his whereabouts. Hamburg reported Tycoon Bernstein "missing." Hopping mad, the Conference voted to postpone further meetings until Herr Bernstein arrived in Paris...
...Close behind was a bearded man on a bicycle, his tremendous legs pumping like pistons. Zipping along in the vacuum of the Auburn's wake, the bearded bicyclist hit 75, 80, 85 m. p. h. The motorcycle officers dropped out at 85. Auburn and bicyclist shot over the finish line at 90 m. p. h., were doing 100 m. p. h. before they slowed down. An A. A. A. official took pencil & paper, certified that Frank Bartell, 33, Czech-born six-day racer, had covered a measured mile at 80.5 m. p. h. Pleased at beating the world...
With Howland B. Stoddard '36 and Richard W. Emory '35 fighting in the finals of the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Championship, held Saturday evening at the University of Pennsylvania, the Crimson wrestlers trailed a field of eight to finish last with a minus five points...
UNHAPPILY enough the Harvard basketball team did not finish in first place in the League this year. This will be galling to some, who spent the fall gushing about the big prospects, but with all the trials and tribulations of the season taken into account, and with the amount of Sophomore material it was necessary to whip into shape, the record of the season was very creditable. There is little doubt in the minds of those who are in contact with the game at Harvard that Wes Fesler has materially raised the standard of Harvard basketball, and that the hopes...
...with the prospect of slashes in the tutorial system. Far more money would accrue to Lehman Hall were the parking rate halved. In that event the lot would be filled; the economics department would no longer run the danger of embarrassment; the impecunious would be aided; and we could finish our trip to the Yard undisturbed so early in the morning by thoughts so alien to scholarly research as false economics, social justice, and human stupidity...