Word: finished
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Five lengths was also the winning margin of the first freshman boat, which won in 6:15. The fastest time of the day was recorded by the second freshman boat, which beat its rivals by seven lengths and 35 seconds to finish...
...redeeming graces later in the collection. The few splendidly worked-out bits of the macabre, however, are too often marred by overexplicit final comments on them. Situations whose full explanations have already been slyly suggested are left with less impact by authors afraid to lead the reader to finish the thought. Overexplaining away the power of a haunting ending is a drawback in, among others, Philip MacDonald, who tediously overends his tale of a brutal murderer's being saved by murder. Perhaps TV would always demand a soothing or at least carefully explicit ending; books...
...died in 1924 at the age of 88, is emerging as Japan's most popular painter since the Ukiyo-e masters of the 17th and 18th centuries. What makes his sudden rise to fame so surprising is that Tessai's work boldly departs from the polish and finish of Japan's professional, court-painting tradition. Instead, he used a rough, impulsive brushwork that often seems closer to the West than to the Orient...
...mounting the pulpit and clearing his throat. When at last he thunders forth his text, the congregation is ready to hear the wisdom of the ages. Instead, the message runs something like this: "Don't cheat on your wife. Because if you do, you'll never finish night school. And if you don't finish night school, brother, you'll spend the rest of your life as a crumby little bookkeeper...
...Progress. He lives with his pretty little working wife (Patricia Smith) in a small flat in a big Manhattan housing development. As the picture begins, the wife has just told him that she is going to have a baby. He is stunned. How will he ever be able to finish night school? And if he doesn't finish night school ... "I think you oughta go to this bachelor party tonight," says his wife after one look at the poor punk's face. "You oughta have a little fun for yourself. You work all day and go to school...