Word: finished
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spectators who lined the course at a safe distance, Thunderbolt, zooming at nearly six miles a minute, looked like a flame (from the exhausts) streaking through a cloud of salt. At the finish of the run, 200-lb. Captain Eyston had trouble getting out of the cockpit. "I had a devil of a time," he chuckled. "The heat of the motor must have swelled my body...
...school children will also learn history, geography, the three Rs. English will be taboo, for British de-Indianizing of the Indians, says Gandhi, is the nation's curse: "We are strangers in our own home. The vocabulary of our mother tongue is so pathetic that we finish our sentences by having recourse to English words...
...took first place among the activities with 35 per cent of the voters favoring one or more athletic endeavor. In second place, at 30 per cent, were the publications. Phillips Brooks House, social service center, placed third with 8 per cent as a choice for profitable occupation, while music finished just out of the money at 7 per cent in a photo finish over managing, which had 6 1-2 per cent devotes. The Student Union, political forum, debating, and dramatics ran a dead heat at 4 per cent...
This couplet, chanted by Gregory Edward Toole (microphone name: Willie Winn), is an idle boast, for his voice carries no farther than 1,000-watt WAAF (Chicago) can send it-about 100 miles. Chicago hears Willie Winn every morning predicting how each of 96 horses will finish in the afternoon's races. And Chicago plays his tips...
...cash and "Nemours," his 1,600-acre Wilmington estate, to establish a foundation for Delaware's crippled children and aged poor. For this foundation, the $300,000 mausoleum will be the architectural centre. It was reported last week that as soon as workmen finish waterproofing the vaults, Jessie Ball du Pont, A. I.'s widow, may have a section of Nemours' high wall knocked down to allow public inspection of the tomb...