Word: finished
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thinking Boy's Filter. This week, plump with ads and solid with facts, the four regional editions of the Farm Journal dropped heavily into country mailboxes across the land. "Hold wool for higher prices," it briskly warned. "Finish selling wheat. Prices are at their peak." As always, the features were gingham-crisp; "New Pay-Offs with Plastic Mulch," "How to Sell Bulls for 30% More," and "Need Bees? Make a Bed for 'Em." The farmer's wife got a new recipe for Danish raspberry pie, and the farmer's daughter learned that if she had light...
...leopards that could leap from the water and catch a running man. The expedition physicist scrawled in his tattered diary: "A bug on a single molecule of oxygen in a gale of wind would have about the same chance of predicting where he was likely to finish...
...Poon editors rowed in its path, shot under the Weeks Memorial footbridge. In a final, desperate attempt more 'Punie hopefuls hurled sacks of flour and a rubber dinghy after it. But it was no use, for upping the stroke to a climatic 48, the Crimeds stretched to a racing finish and crossed the line as cheers echoed across the river
Repertory Boston, Inc. has decided to make a fight for its life. It needs $50,000--about one-fifth the cost of a single, big bad musical--to finish the remaining eight weeks of its season, and it must raise "a good chunk" this week in order to stay in existence. Like the Metropolitan Opera, the New York City Center, and the New York Shakespeare Festival. It is forced to appeal for funds. Foundations and rich old ladies are being vigorously canvassed, but a huge amount of money will have to came from private (tax deductible) gifts...
...back to defeat Roesler in the low hurdles, but it was left for Gordon to climax the meet. After a succession of good Army legs and poor Crimson stick passes had given the Cadets what looked like a secure 12-yard lead, Gordon overhauled Grant Schaefer in another stirring finish for the Crimson's final five points...