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Word: finisher (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Observers last night predicted that Miss Waffle, and Eunice Martin, striking redhead from Waltham, would finish "neck and neck" in the competition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Batonnetters Register In Person for Contest | 10/28/1939 | See Source »

Earle was quite impressed with the prowess of the French army, especially the African native troops. Besides machine guns, and all the implements of modern warfare, each Senegalese native carries his own knife to finish...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "English, French Propaganda Plays Up Defeats," Says Earle | 10/27/1939 | See Source »

More eloquently spoke Dennis Chavez. Indeed, so eloquent was he that for many minutes no one could guess which side he was on. Then in a punch-line finish he deserted the Administration, pledged himself to fight against embargo repeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Brass Tacks | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...poking at the solar plexus of the Administration's war policy-its Morgan-du Pont loaded War Resources Board (soon to be disbanded). What they finally shook hands on was that the U. S. should stay out of war; what they were still making faces over at the finish was how. Sample audience heckling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Chance to Heckle | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...Americans are American, his English sitters unmistakably English. Suavest of his U. S. portraits is that of Mrs. Paul Mellon, the Vassar graduate and divorcee whom Banker Andrew's only son married in 1935.* His drawings and etchings show the same care for line and texture, have the finish of his commissioned work but more freedom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Portraitist | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

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