Word: photofinisher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much of Chicago's population with him and the whole of Chicago's police force against him. He has to steal evidence from the hostile cops, track down a reluctant witness through some wonderfully sinister slums, and finally win his argument in a well-contrived photofinish...
Walt McCurdy regained a flash of his mid-season mastery to help knot Saturday's photofinish tilt, and Bill Prior and John Rockwell looked better than ever. They'll need to be. After tonight it will be all work, all Ivy League. Probably Starting Lineups HARVARD SPRINGFIELD Hauptfuhrer lf Hazon Rockwell rf Burke Prior c Kubachka Brady lg Barker Gannon rg Sullivan
...National League another photofinish was in production. The Chicago Cubs lost five games in a row, three straight to the threatening St. Louis Cardinals. The Cards, who won six in a row, were now on the Cubs' neck and breathing hard...
...there were just too many displays of awkward amateurishness in "Johnny Come Lately" to make it anything but a sub-par picture. Most glaring weakness was the dialogue, with the plot and some of the acting fighting hard to make it a photofinish. Cagney did his best, and, by working like a dog, made most of his scenes tolerable--many even enjoyable...
...show. In her first volume (A Curtain of Green - TIME, Nov. 24, 1941), Miss Welty used gifts for original comedy, satire and characterization which, judging by this book (her third), might as well have belonged to somebody else. At her best, 34-year-old Miss Welty runs a photofinish with the finest prose artists of her time and displays a delicateness of sensibility which borders at once on genius and indecency. Yet her finest writing is nearly always marred by such Celtic locutions as "a sure man, very sure and tender"; and the sensibility is seldom grounded in anything remotely...