Word: finne
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...formal, old-style fund-drive was too cumbersome for U. S. restlessness. Americans last week formed committees, threw binges, sponsored concerts, balls, dinners, benefits, theatricals; debutantes carried jingling boxes through night clubs, collected from workmen; bankers put coin-boxes by their wickets. For their Fatherland and for fun, old Finn Record-Miler Paavo Nurmi and young Finn Record-Two-Miler Taisto Maki finished tuning their leg-muscles to watchspring fineness, began junketing over the U. S., through subways, a strange language, strange food, one-night stands. Their goal: benefit funds for Finland. Finland was the fashion...
With Winship are Finn Ferner Del Ames, Johnny Abbott, and Harry Hollemyer who are racing as a unit for the first time. It was first thought possible to include a second team, but with an increase in the number of entrants this was rendered impossible...
...Readers Hornbeck and Dedrick reflect that the Finn's ammunition (for an old pistol) would not fit the Russians' automatic pistols, 2) that if the dead Russians had any ammunition on them, it would not last long, 3) that captured material is not the property of the soldier who captures it, but of the Army...
...Whence comes our Finn 'n Haddie...
...group is to race in the Massachusetts State Championships on the "Thunderbolt" ski trail at Mt. Greylock for downhill practice. It will be led by Finn Ferner who was barred from the team competing at the Dartmouth Carnival last Friday because his rating with the University was considered that of a graduate student...