Word: finalize
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...shingled house on the Long Island estate where Henry L. Stimson had lived for 47 years. They gathered to pay last respects to the ex-Secretary of War who had been in the Cabinets of four Presidents. The will he left was businesslike, but he had already written a final testament. It was the "Afterword" to the memoirs Stimson wrote three years ago. Quoted at his funeral, it bequeathed a faith for his unpeaceful times...
...rest of the afternoon, using line-bucks, spinners, deep reverses, end runs and an occasional pass, Princeton rolled up 356 yards (297 of them by rushing) while holding Cornell's Ivy League champions to 157 yards (only 27 of them by rushing). The final score...
...articulate, played with a tone of pure gold. It was a glossily polished performance-for some a disappointment because of its fussiness. But all in all, through Sibelius' tone poem Tapiola, a Beethoven Eighth Symphony laid out with the precision and charm of an English garden, and a final lurid "Dance of the Seven Veils" from Richard Strauss's Salome, the audience heard distinctively clean-clipped accents and gorgeous sonorities unmarred by a single ugly sound...
...national festival-Sadie Hawkins Day-which on Nov. 18 will be celebrated for the 14th time on campuses from coast to coast. Chicago will be the epicenter of this year's celebrations. Capp himself will crown the winner of a Sadie Hawkins Chase. To qualify for the final scramble, adolescents of both sexes, in "full Dogpatch regalia," will first race on a treadmill...
...bread, attending science school with only one battered collar (made of celluloid and washed every night) between him and ignominy. All that sustained him, and continued to do so until his last, embittered years, was the passionate belief that knowledge alone could save mankind, and that consequently "the final decision as to the fate of life on our planet depends today upon man's own will...