Word: finishing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Comstock's light, fast crew won the race, closely followed over the finish line by the eights of Anderson and Gray, which came in second and third, respectively...
Wagner and Wilson came in half a length behind Anderson. Next in order of finishing came Bailey, Lincoln, Hemans, Redmond, and Farley. Bailey's boat, which came in sixth, was the first 150-lb. crew to finish the race...
...began, Dr. Goebbels last week seized this occasion for a full-dress radio tirade against Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, British Admiralty chief. He said Mr. Anderson "proved" that Mr. Churchill had the Athenia blown up with a bomb set off aboard at a wireless signal, later had destroyers finish the job. Direct translation of his remarks in German (which were toned down, as customary, in an official English version) read: "That was how you planned it, wasn't it, Mr. Churchill? That was how it was carried out also and then!-then this God-damned American citizen Anderson came...
...September 1938. One curious brake on this big advance is contractors' fear that war, if it lasts more than a year, may more than double costs, as it did last time. So they are afraid to bid for jobs taking two years or so to finish. Thus, in New York City last fortnight, only one bid was offered for a whopping new Criminal Courts Building, and it was nearly $1,000,000 above the city's $8,700,000 estimate, which is usually above the successful bid. At Cleveland, two publicly financed bridge projects drew no bids...
Trailing Wonson across the finish line in the Varsity meet was Jones of New Hampshire, with Langy Burwell of the Crimson right on his heels. Gene Clark took fourth, and Captain Penn Tuttle, who finished with a powerful kick, was fifth...