Word: finished
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rare chance to make amends to decathloners for the neglect with which they are usually treated. The Sullivan award was inaugurated by the Amateur Athletic Union in 1930. Decathloner Barney Berlinger won it in 1931. Decathloner Jim Bausch won it in 1932. This "Stop kidding me. Where did Owens finish, then?" year, voting for the Sullivan award was closer than usual. Early returns made it look as if it would go to famed Jesse Owens, the triple Olympic champion Negro sprinter, who failed to win last year mainly because the fact that he was a page in the Ohio State...
...year-olds. Then Good Harvest ran a piece of timber through his chest that killed him. Discovery, theretofore the most dependable horse in the U. S.. ran so badly he had to be retired. Last week, at Santa Anita's opening, Vanderbilt horses failed to finish in the money...
...field strung out in the back stretch with Special Agent in front at the half mile, Sangreal at the three-quarter. Sangreal was still ahead coming into the stretch when Jockey Peters, moving up on Goldeneye, made his bid. For a split second, it looked like a camera finish. Then Sangreal weakened and Goldeneye drew away-to a six-length lead at the wire, with Sangreal second, Ariel Cross third...
...Christmas Eve, Mr. Brisbane murmured into one of his numerous Dictaphones, brought to his bedside, a timely installment of his far-famed "Today" column: "Another Christmas has come. . . . Nineteen Hundred and Thirty-six years ago . . . 'Peace on earth, 'good will toward men'. . . ." Before he could finish, Mr. Brisbane was tired out. His son Seward furnished the final paragraph, the first writing not actually by Arthur Brisbane ever to appear in the daily editorial column he had turned out for 39 years. On Christmas morning, the sick old editor's physicians prepared an oxygen tent, but could...
...Colonial Period of American History. That book, running to 551 well-filled pages, the most ambitious of the author's 28 historical studies, opened with a phrase of classic serenity: "In fashioning this work," said Professor Andrews, "I think it worthwhile to begin whether I am able to finish it or not." Last week Professor Andrews took one long step toward completing his history when he offered a second volume, bringing the work to a total of 958 pages of closely-reasoned, carefully-documented material that many U. S. readers will find absorbing, few familiar...