Word: finished
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...races off Rhode Island. In the meantime, Hood is concentrating on more current projects-like trying to figure out why Dame Pattie's mast keeps snapping off. In a race against Gretel two weeks ago, Dame Pattie was leading by 5 min., only 250 yds. from the finish line, when her mast collapsed. Maybe she is just too fast for her own good...
...construction and remodeling of its physical plant, and its endowment resources have risen from $6 million to more than $18 million. But the School still has longe-range capital needs estimated at $30 million. A pressing immediate goal has been to raise $7.4 million to add eleven floors to finish one of its major research buildings begun more than five years ago and to complete the final floor on another. The School was promised $2.4 million toward this undertaking by the Health Research Facilities Branch of the National Institutes of Health. Other donors--foundations, corporations, individuals--promised other sums...
Students claw at their carrel-tops and calculate ("If I read 800 words a minute, sixteen hours a day, I will finish the reading by August 20th. But if I read 800 words a minute for seventeen hours...."). Cold fact asserts itself through sleep-drugged minds ("Gazelles cannot actually leap; they are merely very poor flyers"), until fact and fancy no longer collide but merge like an icy cancer spreading over a Roast Beef Special ("If the Atlantic rose and drowned all the gazelles there might not be any Harry Levin...
What the Caesars left undone in Rome, one baroque genius, Gian Loren zo Bernini, tried in the 17th century to finish singlehanded. He was as famous in his day as Michelangelo had been in his, and justly so. For in a lifetime he not only completed St. Peter's by adding its embracing colonnade; he also churned out sculptural piazzas by the dozen, did work for eight popes and sculpted...
...yard event came down to a close finish, as the Crimson's Dick Howe almost caught Northeastern's Jim Castanza on the final lap. Both finished in 2:15.6, but the Huskie's man edged over to finish first. Another Huskie took third...