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Word: finished (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will keep the same stars for two consecutive seasons, with graduation providing an ever-present physical limit to a player's eligibility. This year's varsity swimmng team, however, will have ten returning lettermen and will lose no one who led last year's squad to a sixth place finish in the NCAA championships...

Author: By Thomas M. Pepper, | Title: LINING THEM UP | 12/4/1958 | See Source »

...manner that the varsity lost to B.C. The Crimson, rallying after a shockingly bad start, dominated play for the better part of the evening. Its plays were much more organized than were those of B.C., but the varsity showed its almost traditional weakness of being unable to finish off a scoring play...

Author: By Frederick W. Byron jr., | Title: B.C. Overcomes Varsity In Hockey Opener, 3-1 | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

...Solomon and Sheba, Tyrone Power's funeral marked a beginning, not an end, to trouble. Now that United Artists had decided not to cash in on a $2,500,000 insurance policy and pull out of the picture, problems piled up. Should they use a double to finish the scenes Ty had left undone? At least 50 applicants asked for the job. Even the final decision to hire Brynner and start again from scratch was plagued with difficulties. Stockier than Ty and almost 3 in. shorter, Yul would need all his costumes made over. He was already growing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLLYWOOD: He Was a Beautiful Man | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

However, this figure is misleading, according to Thomas E. Crooks, Director of the Office of Student Placement. "Many more than 13 students will probably wind up working for the government after they finish military service or further study," he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students May Enter Government Service With Higher Ranking | 11/29/1958 | See Source »

...race was engineered by using long boards for run-ways, a hearth for the finish line, and bits of cheese as lures for the anxious mice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rodents Abound As Yalies Visit | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

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