Word: finished
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bill, jammed through by Congress at the last minute, is one of the most vicious pieces of legislation ever palmed off on the people of this nation. . . . This fight will be fought to a finish...
...faith. Said he: "General Motors knows that we speak for these workers. The strike vote . . . proved that.''* Why then did U. A. W.C. I. 0. object to an election being held? Because it would delay matters until the tool & die men, if they went on working, should finish their jobs and be laid...
...strange sight last week were antipodean U. S. tourists who happened to be in the cozy little seaport of Napier, New Zealand and followed the crowds to its racetrack for the annual Napier Steeplechase, one of the island's most outstanding horse races. A few jumps from the finish line, only one horse had a rider. All the others had lost their jockeys somewhere along the stiff, three-mile course. Like a crazy dream, first one spectator, then another, scampered onto the course, mounted riderless horses, took them over the remaining jumps and finished on the heels...
...life. Dean of French literary stirrer-uppers is scrawny, deaf, 71-year-old Charles Maurras, libeling editor for 41 years of the Royalist-Catholic Action Francaise. Last Maurras scandal occurred a year ago when he was elected to the French Academy (TIME, June 27, 1938), following close on the finish of his eight-month prison sentence for urging assassination of Leon Blum...
...career had nothing to do with his disease, he will never swing a bat again, nor even whip a fly rod. Said the Iron Horse last week, as he smilingly faced his enforced pasture: "I guess I have to accept the bitter with the sweet. If this is the finish, I'll take...