Word: finished
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when her father began taking her on some of his oil-prospecting trips around the State. Ever since then they have been close companions. On his frequent nights away from home he always telephoned her at bedtime, and when he was home he would always hear her prayers, finish off with a rousing pillow-fight...
...equivalent of the World Series, the All-Star game, July 4 serves as a convenient punctuation point in the long saga of the No. 1 U. S. sports event, the six months', 154-game pennant race. Last week baseball addicts were busy reconsidering the start and prophesying the finish of what has been so far one of the most surprising baseball years on record...
...American League an extraordinary state of affairs obtained. Picked by most competent baseball critics to finish in or below their 1934 and 1935 position of runner-up to the Detroit Tigers, the New York Yankees on July 4 were ten full games ahead of them and, to all appearances, pennant winners. The Detroit Tigers, handicapped by the illness of their catcher-manager. Mickey Cochrane. who had a nervous breakdown when his team failed to hit its stride at the season's start, were a bare percentage fraction ahead of the Washington Senators...
...joined the secret organization that is to save the peace of Europe, has doubts of his unknown brethren's integrity-doubts which are not dismissed by an attempt on Briand's life, a vague scheme for kidnapping royalty. The two student friends, Jerphanion and Jallez, finish their course, have one last reunion in Jerphanion's mountain home. The peace of Europe hangs in the balance when Premier Cail-laux, behind his Foreign Minister's back, intrigues with Berlin. The atmosphere of Paris grows weekly more tense, war daily more imminent...
...many a famed oldtimer. Newest was Robert P. Baruch's 53-ft. sloop Kirawan, launched only a month ago. Most famed was Vadim Makaroff's 72-ft. adapted-ketch Vamarie, known to yachtsmen as "often a bridesmaid but never a bride," because she so frequently crosses the finish line first only to lose the race because of her small allowance handicap. Last week's finish proved no exception. First over the horizon at St. David's Head, Vamarie crossed the line four minutes ahead of the schooner Brilliant. When the race was over, however, neither...