Word: finisher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were "assessed" (robbed) of $2,500,000 to be used by the Wuhan generals in carrying on their civil war. Before Marshal Chiang left Nanking he tapped the Nationalist treasury for $5,000,000. Prognostications were for a long-drawn war of skirmishes, possibly to be fought to a finish in the southern provinces near Canton, a region thus far comparatively unplundered by China's peripatetic militarists...
...took the lead shortly after passing under the Harvard Bridge and were followed closely by the second year crew with S. W. Swami '31 setting the beat. The juniors trailing slightly in the rough water, made their final bid for second place in the last quarter mile, crossing the finish line a half length behind the Sophomores...
...cars, trains and airplanes, gathered last week around the Aintree racing course, shadowed by the murk of Liverpool. They watched 16 horses charge, as though in a Cossack attack, at the start of the Grand National Steeplechase. Horses stumbled. Horses straddled hedges. Horses fell into ditches. Ten reached the finish line at the end 856 yards. Leading them was one the name of which the half-million scarcely knew−a 100 to 1 shot, owned by a woman, ridden by a former sailor−Gregalach II, a chestnut gelding...
...soggy from two days of rain. The field crept closer and closer. At the last hedge but one, Easter Hero and Gregalach jumped together. When they landed Gregalach was ahead. He kept the lead across the final barrier to win by six lengths. Far behind staggered Richmond II to finish third...
...haven't got any duty involved! Back home there may have been a law against enjoying ourselves the way we wanted to, but there's none here!" "My dear Sam, it's a matter of keeping one's self-respect . . ." Finally came the dismal feminine finish: "Oh, you simply can't understand...