Word: finished
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sensible, matter-of-fact autobiographical chronicle of a onetime nurse gave a good, clear picture of the day-to-day work and training involved. Written by the wife of Psychiatrist Smith Ely Jelliffe, For Dear Life is an unpretentious book, makes up in honesty what it lacks in literary finish...
...head, and also a bullet that was supposed to have been in the calf of his leg. I have associated with me Frank N. Littlejohn, chief of detectives, who is today one of the outstanding men in his profession in the U. S., and when we finish our scientific and thorough investigation, we feel that the truth will come out in such shape that there will be no doubt as to the identity of the man who died in 1846 and stated on his death bed that he was the Marshal of France. CHARLES W. ALLISON...
...cold mist at Grunau, Washington University's eight-oared crew won the gold medal by half a length over Italy and Germany in a breath-taking finish. In Berlin German gymnasts swung, spun and rolled up the impressive winning total of 657,936 points. While the International Basketball Federation, meeting to see what could be done about making the game satisfactory for the 1940 Olympics at Tokyo, vetoed a proposal to limit the height of basketball players to 5 ft. 8 in., agreed on 6 ft. 3 in., the U. S. won the Olympic title, 19-t08 against Canada...
...each second, four for third and so on down to one for sixth in each event, Germany had the highest number of points in the XIlth Olympic Games with 580 to 470 for the U. S.* More surprising than that the huge, populous, sport-conscious U. S. contrived to finish second was that nooks and crannies like Austria, Italy, The Netherlands and Egypt beat all rivals at canoeing, fencing, girls' swimming and weight lifting respectively...
...kept on swimming. When the race was over, Fick and the Japanese stopped looking at each other, looked at Csik. He was the winner. Said Swimmer Fick to Swimmer Csik: "It's good I got third, at least." He was wrong again. In the confusion at the finish, judges had, perhaps erroneously, placed Fick sixth, behind not only Yusa, Arai and Taguchi but even German Helmuth Fischer...