Word: finished
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crew, after maintaining a blistering pace of 35 to 36 strokes per minute in the early part of the race, fell behind at the half way mark. Cornell made its traditional sprint at the end, but Harry Pollock's boat just responded by picking up its own pace to finish well ahead...
...mind, wants more than a nice street for inaugural parades. Pennsylvania Avenue is the hypotenuse of two triangles. One, bounded on the south by the Mall, is composed of existing federal buildings -the Department of Justice, the Post Office and Department of Commerce. The council now proposes to finish the northern triangle south of G Street, presently a junky commercial slum. The most striking feature would be a daring mezzanine that carries pedestrians over traffic. Lifting strollers over cars, it would bring people into shops, theaters, hotels and restaurants woven around new federal buildings. New commerce could draw Washingtonians...
Harvard managed its final flash of brilliance in the next event, the 120-yard high hurdles, when both Awori and Spitzberg qualified for the finals and Awori got three points with a third place finish. His time of 0:14.3 was the same as that of the winner, John Bethea of Morgan State...
...Lotus to second place, the U.S.'s Dan Gurney put another in seventh, and a roaring argument exploded over what might have been if Parnelli Jones's leading Offy had not dumped half its oil in front of the fast-closing Clark 25 laps from the finish. Now the rear-engined boys were back to settle the matter once...
...within two or three years. This fall it will start laying a fourth cable to Europe beneath the ocean, and last week it completed the first telephone cable to Japan. In typically prudent fashion, the telephone company is preparing for just about any eventuality: late this year it will finish a $200 million underground cable across the U.S. that will be able to carry important calls even if all above-ground wires are destroyed in a nuclear attack. It is also developing a wide array of new equipment, including pushbutton phones, which have just gone into use in 35 cities...