Word: finished
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Association. By week's end 8,000 workers had got what Sidney Hillman wanted them to get, 5,000 workers had gone back to work, and the "most peaceful, satisfactory strike" in that shrewd labor leader's history seemed to be drawing to a finish as smooth as silk...
...Procurement Division, salary 90? an hour, $1,560 a year, to paint his picture. Under him will be six assistants, listed as "artists" and drawing $1.60 an hour for a 15-hour week. The 2,500 square feet of dry fresco will take about three months to finish. At his normal rate of self-valuation Assistant Clerk Marsh's commission for a mural of this size would...
...breeze followed by two broad reaches, was more one-sided than the first. Ranger, outmaneuvered at the start, trailed Endeavour for the first hour, then took the lead and held it-10 min. ahead at the first mark, 16 min. ahead at the second, 18 min. ahead at the finish. Skipper Sopwith, discouraged, asked for a one-day postponement...
...Tiger and Teddy's Comet, two-year-old race horses owned by Ethel V. Mars and Emerson Woodward respectively: $18,000 each, for running a dead heat in the Arlington Futurity, after which judges examined photographs of the finish with a magnifying glass without being able to decide which was ahead; at Arlington Park, near Chicago...
...Praed set the record. Closer to the riddle verse of folklore than to crossword puzzles, "Pa" Rolfe's charades ought to meet the hot-weather demand of many a plain reader for something humorous that does not cost much and may take the rest of the summer to finish...