Word: finished
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they touched him. "I've got to work this out for myself," he cried. All afternoon, on his twelve-inch-wide perch, he argued with his sister, a priest, a doctor, a minister. He drank a dozen glasses of water, lit countless cigarets, pondered his problem. Should he finish the act the audience of 10,000 was waiting for, or return ignominiously to safety? The afternoon wore on, evening came. Still John Warde had not solved his problem. At 10:38 he heard the rustle of a rope net which police were vainly trying to anchor below...
...Battling Frank III crossed the finish line at 5 p. m., well ahead of all opposition, rowing in high fifties. Stroke Oar Ethel doing well...
...seconds later acrobatic Flight Lieutenant Abadia, who once was suspended from the air service for "imprudent flying," decided to finish off with a super-spectacular dive ending in a "half roll" swoop between the two grandstands, barely far enough apart for his plane to have room to pass between. Crash-one wingtip hit the Diplomatic Stand. CRASH -the plane rebounded against the Presidential Stand, burst into flame and sprayed burning gasoline as its propeller slashed human flesh. The whole flaming mass crunched down upon spectators between the stands, slithered 65 feet...
...Electric Co., which holds a franchise to distribute gas in Coatesville, was reported to have wanted to charge Lukens some $100,000 annually as commission for linking it to the Columbia pipe line. After several years of political fencing, Columbia's subsidiary this year dug in for a finish fight with the State's powerful coal interests, who were backed by a temporary decree instigated in 1936 by Governor Earle against further introduction of natural gas in the State...
...unique contest called the Vertical Mile Marathon, sponsored by the Colorado Springs Junior Chamber of Commerce. At the snow-banked summit (14,108 ft. above sea level and exactly one mile higher than the starting point), a sunburned crowd of 300 watched all but five of the runners finish...