Word: finish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Barkley of Kentucky complained that the Congress had nothing to do. Three months later the Senate was still taking three-day recesses for want of work. As usual, in the last two or three weeks, Session I jammed through the entire legislative program in a last-minute, lickety-split finish...
...Satisfied that Lerner had overcome a tendency toward "meet-nervousness" to which he had been prone and anxious to keep him from over-strain, Jaakko scratched Lerner from the semi-finals. Although MacKechnie placed fifth in an eight man host in the same run, the finish was close enough to put him within an ace of pay time. A little more training will turn the trick for the "lab-be-labored" pacers...
Behind 35 to 31 with only six minutes to go the Crimson forces rallied to stop the much vaunted speedy Lion offense and to forge into the lead to win in a thrilling finish...
...workmen in stainless steel is the sight of a gleaming new Diesel-powered (by G. M. C.'s Electro-Motive Corp.) streamline train rolling out of the yard to go into service on U. S. railroads. Last week, in the big, sprawling North Philadelphia plant, Budd workmen were finish ing up 50 streamline cars-for the Portuguese railway, Burlington, Santa Fe - and in the performance of streamliners already in service Budd could see the prospect of a lot more railroad orders in the years ahead...
...Gone With The Wind" is a magnificent spectacle. Knowing well that they would have a critical audience on their hands, the producers have done a painstaking job from start to finish, and have not been sparing with the money (as you doubtless are aware by now). The result--four solid hours of Civil War South, negro mammies, hoop skirts, and Clark Gable, all in technicolor--is mighty impressive. Vivien Leigh is absolutely all that could be asked in the way of charm, and Clark Gable, as everyone has known since the book was first published, fits Rhett Butler to perfection...