Word: finished
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...committee expressed satisfaction with the present athletic program as carried on by the University and said they expected all the teams to finish out their schedules in spite of the heavy losses they have suffered...
...life if the war is over). Officers high in the army have expressed themselves in this way. In a letter received within a few days, General Leonard Wood refers to "the policy which you and I have been driving at, which is a sound one. 'The boys are to finish their work at the college and not go until they are wanted and can be used to advantage...
...prose, Mr. Hill's "Repatriation Service in France" lacks finish, but makes up for the lack by sincerity and substance: Mr. Eastman's "After the Dance" is a short fanciful sketch. "Death and the devil," it may be fairly said, have "done for the rest." J. D. writes with sardonic force on suicide; Mr. Williams depicts vituperative Frenchmen "bandying jovial indecencies" till the order comes: "All sections roll tomorrow at four. ***Trenchbombs." Mr. Sparks tells of an aviator killed in an accident and of the French girl who mourned him. As in many stories that deal with passion, the author...
...fought for the flag and liberty more than fifty years ago paraded proudly, with eyes to the front and heads held high. Cheer upon cheer greeted the old soldiers, the women joining their voices, waving their hand-kerchiefs and giving the veterans the "Chatauqua salute." From start to finish of the parade, indeed, the battalion was in perfect step and alignment, and the proud standards were borne aloft without a hitch by three stalwart Grand Army...
...child in this country could and would realize that we are up against the wickedest and most powerful force of evil that the world has ever seen, and that it is going to be a gruelling conflict that will test our country right up to the breaking point,--a finish fight, with no holds or blows barred, that will take every grain of sand we have, and every ounce of fighting strength to win. And so I'm in it on that basis, and if it is possible for one atom in the mass to influence the result...