Word: finished
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spin in the brick-yard," Sam had planned to steal some time by making only two pit stops in his light, low-slung Belond Exhaust Special. He had already made them, and he could not be sure whether his latest set of tires would last till the finish. He was less than a lap ahead of the second racer. Should he crowd his luck, or bet on the speed and skill of his pit crew...
...investigate and correct the "horse-and-buggy" accounting system used in his Chicago office. He had considerable reason: press charges of a kickback "welfare fund" (which Paschen denied collecting) had just forced Paschen from the governor's race (TIME, Sept. 10). Another kick would be likely to finish him politically...
...from Cornell stuck with Yale's Olympic champions all the way down the Olympic course (2,000 me ters) on Princeton's choppy Carnegie Lake. But Yale's two feet of lead seemed too much for the Big Red to erase. Then, ten strokes from the finish, Cornell's all-senior eight found strength for a final spurt. Their shell slid across the line inches in front to win the heavyweight sprint championships of the Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges...
...side or the other. His Philistine realizes that a magic has gone out of his life, that "things were different now. The winged seeds that gyrate down from the trees now mean nothing else but that we must sweep them from the automobile hood because stains on the finish lower the trade-in value." And his bohemian is intelligent enough to recognize and be shamed by his own posing. At the peak of his talkativeness and charm, he "commences to doubt the impression he is making...
...Yardling eight fared the best of any of the heavyweight crews for the Crimson as it won its morning heat over Syracuse and then went on to finish a strong second behind a good Yale boat...