Word: finish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mountain farmhouse of a neighbor named Cindy Lovelace when the Stepps rode up, started shooting. Smith fell dead. A bullet hit Billy Hull between the nose and the right eye, came out the back of his head to lodge in his collar. He dropped. The Stepps dashed over to finish him but, says a family chronicler, "Cindy wrapped her apron around his haid and shouted, 'Lord a' mercy, don't shoot him again, he's dead...
Slow-painting, finical Grant Wood spent months boning up on costumes, background for Parson Weems' Fable, then did a full-scale preliminary drawing of it. Last November he started work on the final canvas, for six weeks worked 16 hours a day to finish it. Priced at around $10,000 (American Gothic sold for $300 in 1930), it is first of a projected Wood series on U. S. legends...
...corporation debentures, the 10,000 shares of common stock to Hollywoodians. Among the stockholders are Constance Bennett (one of the smartest of cinema's businesswomen), Claudette Colbert, Darryl Zanuck, Al Jolson, Paley & friends are planning to sell $500,000 more of common stock issue to finish the job of making Arrowhead a glittering combination of Carlsbad and Sun Valley...
...snatching the game, which for drama equaled anything ever seen in the Garden, the high-flying Blackbirds preserved a winning streak rare in basketball annals. Because they play so many games a season, U. S. basketball teams seldom finish a season undefeated. Long Island University, however, won all its 24 games last year, had by last week won 42 games in a row (eight of them this season...