Word: finished
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kiphuth concentrates on the arm depressors-muscles that pull the arms down. "The arm depressors must be strengthened for best results in pulling at the catch and to push through at the finish of the stroke," he explains. "I'm a great believer in swimming with the arms." For hours on end Yale swimmers rhythmically flail their arms in Payne Whitney exercise rooms, lying on boards in swimming position and struggling with weights...
...Williams is now working alone night and day to analyze the purified hormone so that it can be synthesized, mass-produced, and tested on higher forms of life. He expects to finish his work "in a few months," barring interruptions. Members of all major American drug concerns, concerns, he notes, are working on the project in competition with him, and "it is hard to try to do research in the middle of all this confusion...
...Soviet students have graduated from the nation's ten-year (college prep) schools. And when Premier Khrushchev's learning-and-labor edict (TIME, Jan. 5) takes effect, the proportion probably will drop. In the U.S. 55% of the children who begin first grade go on to finish high school. American students most often are promoted automatically-although some schools, notably those in New York City, have begun flunking dullards again. In Russia a frightening series of 26 examinations sift students at intervals, shunt unsuccessful scholars off to work or to one of thousands of "technikums"-vocational schools...
MANHATTAN SKYSCRAPER hotel, 48 stories tall with six stories of offices and 2,000 rooms, is planned by Builder William Zeckendorf for site across from Radio City on Avenue of the Americas at 51st St. The $66 million building is slated to start in fall, finish in 1961. Name: the Zeckendorf...
...newly appointed director of the factory where he was an unsatisfactory worker? We've had that ten times. Shall I tell how she, his beloved, attained high production levels, while he, her beloved, was still not up to . . .? I don't even want to finish thinking this to the end: we've had it a hundred times already...