Word: finish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stretch finish just as breath-taking as the one to which he treated his gallery at Skokie 18 years ago, Sarazen chalked up the 34 he needed, tied Lawson Little for the championship with a 72-hole total of 287,-eight strokes better than Sam Snead, three strokes better than Hogan, Guldahl and Nelson...
Yale's proudest son, oldtime Pulp Hero Frank Merriwell, 60, now being revived by his creator, "Burt L. Standish" (Gilbert Patten, who last week went to Camden, Me. to finish The Return of Frank Merriwell), has become a small-town editor (Millville, U. S. A.), dauntlessly crusades against vice, still fixes all comers with "a calm and steady gaze...
...Cornell contest. The race at Ithaca showed that the Crimson was not as smooth as was believed, probably because the crew had not had to face such powerful opposition before. Undoubtedly Cornell is one of the best crows in the country and has a good chance to finish first at Poughkoopsie, so Harvard did not lose much prestige by being beaten...
Enough Time? Adolf Hitler's greatest fear is that he may not have time to finish his work. Last week his Armies, his Air Force, his power politicians and his sycophants worked at top speed to create a new Europe for him. Until he realized his dream of Germany surrounded by European yes-nations, with Russia pushed beyond the Urals-and the game was still far from over-he would scarcely have the leisure to complete his second Volume, reportedly titled...
...senior singles class, P. D. Wilson Jr. '43 won with Julian Simmons '42 trailing him over the line. In junior singles E. S. Gilchrist '41 led C. A. Herter Jr. '42 to the wave of the finish flag, as well as winning the 155-lb. singles from Franklyn King Jr. '41. Novice singles was won by Landis Gorges '1GSD, B. P. Anderson '41 2nd. Compromise class by H. R. Shepley Jr. '41, W. O. Apthorp '43 second; and wherry class by E. R. Bason...