Word: finished
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...county fair was aviation's winter meet, the All-American Air Maneuvers, at Miami last week. A half-dozen speed events went off like buggy-races. The ships that flew in them were not freakish rocket ships, but ordinary sport and businessmen's airplanes. At the finish at week's end, no open speed records had been broken, but no flier had been killed or maimed, no ship demolished. It was aviation's first big safe and sane get-together...
Said Mayor Wilson at week's end, still out for his monument: "We'll finish the job first and argue about it afterward." Meantime, Philadelphia air travelers still cross the river to Camden to emplane...
...supreme council of India. (Resigning five years later, Macaulay left behind a new Indian penal code and educational system, had saved ?30,000.) He became the most successful English essayist (sometimes so intoxicated with erudite digressions that he wound up lamely saying that space did not permit him to finish); and a historian whose publishers gladly sent him ?20,000 advance royalties on the last volume of his History of England. Thus ugly, harsh-voiced Thomas Macaulay seemed, to all but a handful of his contemporaries, to have amply fulfilled the promise of his precocious beginnings...
Sporting a new style of play under Coach Blair Guillion's regime, the Big Red team from Cornell is hoping to improve upon its fourth place finish in the League standings last year...
Roosevelt, a grandson of Theodore Roosevelt '80, comes from Cold Spring Harbor, New York, and graduated from Groson. Entering Harvard in the Class of '40, he has majored in the Classics and expects to finish his college course this year, since Rhodes scholars are supposed to have graduated. He is a resident of Eliot House and a member of the Signet Society...