Word: finished
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Social Security Bill which had to be entirely rewritten in the House, for not making up his mind until June that he wanted the Wagner Labor Disputes Bill, the Guffey Coal Bill passed as part of his program. Last week Congress was growing tired, yearning for the finish line, when the President, at last knowing his own mind, began to ride harder, to put the whip to Congressional flanks...
...prizewinners have had to survive more exhausting tests. In other years, preliminary competitions reduced the candidates to eight finalists at the most who were then assembled in Manhattan for a final problem. This year, however, instead of being allowed to finish that problem at home where instructors sometimes lent a helping hand, four finalists were put through a test which suggested the ancient Pa-ku-wen of Imperial China.* In the exhibition hall of the Beaux-Arts Building carpenters built four little cubicles of composition board. Each was furnished with a drawing board, reading light, stool, ash trays, sets...
...more ways than one the members of the Class of 1910 have turned out more than 1100 strong to break all previous records for 25th Reunion attendance and jubilation. This afternoon's festivities will mark the finish of the social activities which were put in full swing Monday evening by an entertainment "Life Begins at Ten Forty" held in the Rindge auditorium...
Chicago Tribune first jolted its readers with remarkably clear continuity pictures of Golden Gloves boxers in action, followed with a strip of Pitcher Dizzy Dean from windup to finish. Cameraddicts knew that no ordinary motion picture film could produce such distinct "stills." The Tribune's camera was invented by one Lewis H. Moomaw of suburban Wilmette, a onetime small producer of Hollywood cinemas, lately in the engineering department of Stewart-Warner Corp. All he would say about his camera was that it contains a prism, will take a series of quick flashes faster than a cinema camera...
With these and other clues Clark was able to fix at least one dated drawing for every five years of Leonardo's career. The drawings begin vigorously and experimentally, turn precise and dry, explore and finish the possibilities of silverpoint, then drop silverpoint entirely, solve the problems of shading in concave spaces to define forms, turn to red chalk in a bold, open style, then to pen & ink and black chalk, once again with exquisite neatness but with a new heavy deliberation and economy. Finally, as the paralysis began to clamp on the heavy-bearded, 60-year...