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Word: finished (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Five of these most recent triumphs have been in league play, to run the team's Ivy mark to 7-6, and a sure fifth place finish. Victory tonight, moreover, would put Harvard in position to tie for fourth place, in case either Columbia or Princeton, both with 7-5 records, should falter against weak opponents tonight. If both lose, and the Crimson wins, a three-way tie for third place would result...

Author: By John A. Rava, | Title: Basketball Team to Oppose Yale In Contest Tonight at Blockhouse | 3/9/1957 | See Source »

...close to 70 m.p.h. He "scratched ice" as he negotiated the wicked 90° turns called Battledore and Shuttlecock, but only enough to slow his sled by a fraction. Toes up once more, he skittered under a railroad bridge past nasty little bends called Scylla and Charybdis. At the finish line he was traveling 90 m.p.h. Bibbia's time for the 1,320-yd. dive: a winning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: St. Moritz Sleigh Ride | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

...Richest? Now Getty is taking the last step toward a fully integrated oil empire that will run from producing field to gas pump. Tidewater will soon finish a $200 million refinery on the Delaware coast, and by May the plant will be producing 130,000 bbl. of gasoline and fuel daily. It will also have one of the world's biggest single fluid catalytic crackers (processing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: The Unknown Giant | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

...Snowjob Porter, convinces the professor that Pat is a "born writer." But daddy Kingsgrant, a Yankee lawyer with a Park Avenue penthouse and a mind like a safety-deposit box, is not so easily hurdled. Pat scoops up his Brooks Brothers suits and heads for a Manhattan hovel to finish the Great American Novel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: All the Tired Young Men | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

Reider's fourth place finish to Ron Delany of Villanova, and Pete Harpel's fourth in the 35-pound weight were all the track team could garner, as Villanova completely dominated the meet, with Manhattan a distant second...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reider Breaks Two-Mile Mark | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

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