Word: finished
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With this exchange of tentative pokes in the public prints, pudgy William Green of the A. F. of L. and puffy Heywood Broun of the American Newspaper Guild last week started something that neither of them could finish before the week was out. Mr. Green suggested that the Guild would be better off if Mr. Broun would resign as president, since his activities had left it "torn to shreds, with its subordinate officers set out like ducks on a rock for the publishers to shoot...
Then after rehearsing his objectives in Court reform and repeating his argument that a constitutional amendment would be too slow, he demanded a fight to the finish...
...heard of them for the rest of the summer. But no Indians were seen Or heard in the Conococheague Valley either. The Black Boys were beating the Indians at their own game. In the Spring Smith's men joined the British regulars under Colonel Bouquet for a finish fight in the Ohio country. Three companies of regulars were left behind to protect frontier homes. When Smith's men came back 18 months later it was to discover that many a home had been raided while the rear guard was wintering snugly in Philadelphia to ease the nerves...
...last week's end the Chicago Cubs still had a two-game lead over the New York Giants in the National League race. Racing closely enough behind to produce another exciting finish such as has distinguished National League play every year since 1931 were the Pittsburgh Pirates (4½ games behind the Cubs) and the St. Louis Cardinals (5 games behind...
...first five holes of the final nine in four deliberate 45 and a 3, misputting only on the 18th for a 5. Needing only two more 45 and a 5 to win, he made the next two holes in 3 and 4, cautiously took 5 on the last, to finish with a par 71, topping Whitcombe by two strokes. He had won his second British Open championship when Lacey stormed in shortly afterward with a 72, to finish third...