Word: finished
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Divine, world's largest cathedral (in cubic capacity), neither its exterior nor interior has been completed. Astute Bishop William Thomas Manning, not loath to identify the cathedral with New York's forthcoming World's Fair, has launched a campaign to raise $1,000,000 to finish the interior so that Fairgoers may worship there. At present, services are held not in the finished Gothic nave but in the crossing, at the intersection of the two transepts. Bishop Manning proposes to give the Romanesque choir and sanctuary Gothic vaults, to match the 124-foot vaults of the nave...
Because of these consistencies in performances, Princeton can be conceded no more than four first places on Saturday. Al Van de Weghe, whose best backstroke time is four seconds under Graham cummin's best has stacked the cards for himself. Dick Hough, in the breastroke, is almost certain to finish ahead of Fritz Berrizl. Hough's personal record is five seconds faster than Berizzl's. With Van de Weghe and Hough in the medley relay, assisted by Van Oss or Simpson for the free-style leg, the Tigers stand a better-than-average chance of winning that event. They have...
Behind 5 to 8 at the halfway mark, the Crimson was pulled up by von Stade's six goals in the last two chukkers to clinch the battle at the finish...
With "Nothing Sacred" and "Damsel in Distress" the University has a splendid double bill--one that is funny from start to finish. There is every sort of humor from the insane cracks of Gracie Allen to the superb clowning of Frederic March and Carole Lombard; even Fred Astaire's dances are done in a funny...
...Onions for the composition of TIME as it marches on. . . I find it difficult to get the kernel of each story without carefully reading every word from start to finish. As I haven't the time for such laborious reading, weeks and months slip by without my getting past the first three or four pages of each issue. . . . The foregoing criticism applies only to the longer yarns-I find the shorter squibs quite unobjectionable...