Word: finished
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...upsets to be chalked up on the scoring board. Captain Bill Schmidt sprained an ankle in the high hurdles, to be kept out of the lows later in the afternoon. Bill had the satisfaction of seeing John Case and John Sparrow go on without him in the highs to finish first and third...
...Housatoute, there were about ten people cheering for Harvard in the 150-pound regatta; it was a heart-breaker, and even the rabidest Eli cheerers had to admit it would have been nip and tuck at the finish except for those crabs...
...extreme short stroke as rowed by the Washington crews, which has been increasing each time there has been regatta on the Charles, got a slight blow in the big race of the day, as both the Elis and Princeton led Cornell's effortless-looking eight across the finish line...
This writer after four hours on watch in the hot stokehold has rushed topsides to finish Homer's Iliad. Before he completed it a new box of books was brought aboard and then the fun began. Engineers when they heard that the representative of the American Merchant Marine Library Association was on board ran up the engine room ladders two steps at a time. The reason for this, this writer believes, is that engineers are apt to be more philosophically inclined and have more of the "monastic" spirit...
Finally, overshadowing all the rest, the President called for a finish fight on his Court Plan. Dictating a statement after his White House Conference, Senator Robinson declared: "I see no prospect at this stage of any adjustment or agreement...