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Word: finished (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...students at Tufts will attend Harvard Law School even before they finish college, according to a new plan announced Saturday by Leonard Carmichael, Tufts president...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tufts Pre-Law Men to Study In Law School | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...then clucked to him. The champ, all the prettier to watch for being alone, quickly caught up with the field and passed most of it. After going through all their paces, Wing Commander and two others were selected to remain in the center of the ring. The order of finish: i) Wing Commander, 2) Sam McGee, 3) Song of India...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Five Speeds Forward | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...enough to denounce removal of the mural as "a direct attack and violation of student rights and the usurpation of the powers of student government." As a matter of principle they wanted the mural sketch back; they got it, together with a promise that Collins would be permitted to finish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Back on the Wall | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...death, his executor handed them over to Bartok's close friend and fellow composer Tibor Serly, who had earlier spent four months of skull-cracking labor trying to decipher the piece. Serly later said: "No man ever had such a task in his life . . . In order to finish this work as Bartok would have finished it, I had to put myself in a dead man's mind." Serly completed the score for viola (after rejecting the notion of adapting it for the more popular cello) and worked out the full orchestration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dead Man's Diamond | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...bill, Hilton dashed to a friend who knew the postmaster to get the check back before it was delivered. Without being asked, the friend lent Hilton $50,000 to cover the check. When Hilton ran out of money again, he went back to his landlord and persuaded him to finish and furnish the building. Then Hilton rented it back from him at $100,000 a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOTELS: The Key Man | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

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