Word: finishers
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Stroke is slow on the shoot, jerks at the finish, but rows long...
Leonardo da Vinci was the first of the great Venetian painters. He has been called an idealist, a realist, a dreamer and a scientist. A scientist he certainly was, and it is to be greatly lamented, for it caused him to attempt much, and to finish little. His many and various tastes urged him different ways. He looked too deeply into the "well spring of truth," and in striving after the unobtainable, he left behind him a life of singular incompleteness, but of vast promise. He was neither religionist nor classicist, and looked at things coldly and scientifically...
...place for field events. There will also be tennis courts within the space enclosed by the running track. Running along the northern side of the grounds will be a straightaway track 220 yards long on which the dashes will be run. It will be so arranged that the finish will be in front of the grand stand, in the northeastern corner of the field. It is intended to place this stand so that it can be used for the baseball and football games as well as for the track athletics. West of this track another baseball field will be laid...
...kicks out his slide and slumps at finish...
...rows a stroke which is stiff and jerky from start to finish. His time is very poor...