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Word: finne (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...into Boston Channel. A numbed lookout in the bow suddenly shouted. Frantically the helmsman tried to put her over, but she was sluggish with ice, heavy with 50,000 lb. of fish in her hold. Next moment the Mary E. O'Hara crashed into a barge anchored off Finn's Ledge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Last Voyage | 2/3/1941 | See Source »

...Honest Finn Paananen knew there must be some mistake. But for nearly a week he kept the check in his pants pocket, felt by turns rueful and frolicsome. He drove to the Plymouth National Bank, casually asked the teller to cash a check, watched his face when he shoved it through the window. Then he complained to the vice president, had fun watching his face too. Finally Andrew Paananen mailed the check back to the Treasury. "I think the $15.25 part of it is right," said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Millionaire for a Week | 2/3/1941 | See Source »

...Finn Ferner turned in the best Harvard performance in Saturday's cross-country race, run over a nine-mile course with excellent snow conditions, by finishing eleventh. Close behind him were Del Ames and Bill Halsey, fourteenth and fifteenth respectively. Lindley Burton, Roger Wilson, and Jack Crawford ended up eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Team Has Hard Luck At Franconia Ski Meet | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

...pound: Cochran (H) defeated Finn (T), decision...

Author: By J. ROBERT Moskin, | Title: MATMEN SLAM JUMBOS, 29-5 | 1/9/1941 | See Source »

...pound: Cochran (H) defeated Finn (T), decision...

Author: By John C. Bullard, | Title: SEXTET FACES INDIAN SQUAD | 1/9/1941 | See Source »

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