Word: finished
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York's Pioneer Club by 89 points, and Tulare watched, silent and worried. It roared alive when Bob took a lead next night. He kept in front, and Tulare went home happy and hoarse. Order of finish: Mathias (7,552 points), Mondschein (7,045), Bill Albans of North Carolina U. (6,715). Young Bob, also a crack baseball and football man who will enter Stanford next fall, had come closest yet to the A.A.U. record (7,880) set by 37-year-old Glenn Morris...
Hotels & Highways. Newfoundland has a long way to go before it can accommodate large numbers of tourists at reasonable rates. It needs to build more roads and to finish and pave a cross-country highway. It needs a car-ferry on the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and many more modern hotels, inns and cabins...
...door of the editor's office at the Shanghai Evening Post and Mercury (circ. 3,000) one day last week, a huge cartoon was tacked. It showed a portly, bespectacled foreigner carrying a suitcase toward a steamship. The pidgin-English caption: "All finish!" The Chinese caption:"Scram, Gould...
After 18 hectic years of piloting Shanghai's only U.S.-owned newspaper, Editor Randall Chase Gould, 51, was indeed "All finish!" in the Far East. To Gould, it had been a disillusioning experience...
...former newspaperman, wrote a novel of contemporary Mississippi, In My Father's House, and The Gauntlet (TIME, Dec. 24, 1945), which sold 800,000 copies. In the midst of writing Tomorrow We Reap, which carries the Dabney clan beyond 1893, he bogged down, doubted that he could finish the book. Alabama-born James Childers (Laurel and Straw), an Air Force colonel in World War II and a Dabney fan, volunteered to help him. The result is unspectacular, although followers of the Dabneys will want to read it to find out what happened to the grandchildren and great-grandchildren...