Word: finished
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...authority. But there are other examples of this kind of forced appropriation, and the appropriating power of Congress is in grave danger. Roosevelt plays the same game with the Passamaquoddy project, the Gila Dam, and the Florida ship canal. It is quite clear that Congress is expected to finish whatever the President begins, regardless of whether or not it was worth while in the first place...
...optimistic forecast of how they may finish...
...aren't worth much more than the paper they're written on, and then only if the paper isn't of especially high grade, we hereby go out on the limb and predict a Harvard victory in the Quadrangular Meet in the Garden tonight. Cornell, Dartmouth and Yale should finish in that order after the crimson runners if nothing comes along to upset our calculations...
...Last fortnight, Germany won the downhill & slalom skiing, Finland, the 40-kilometre ski-race. At the finish last week, 15 more Olympic championships had been decided. The events...
...last autumn had themselves photographed in action by a cinema camera, sent the film to a composer who devised a score to match their action. This painstaking process justified itself last week. The seven judges soberly awarded Skaters Herber & Baier first prize for a demonstration which supplied in finish whatever it lacked in spontaneity. Viennese Bandleader Karl Schafer, who made the Austrian swimming team in 1928, took the men's title. Blonde Sonja Henie of Oslo won the women's championship...