Word: finished
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under a clever ride by the old master, Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane's four-year-old won in a driving finish in the $5,000 Invitation Purse...
...Yale, in beating Cornell last Saturday, sent two men over the line within seven seconds of breaking the record. Princeton also, though lacking the balance which characterized Bonthron's team of last year, has two capable performers who look like good bets to lead the pack at the finish...
Scott & Black, keeping up their sensational pace, flashed into Charleville, refueled, sped toward the finish where waiting thousands cheered their progress, reported over loudspeakers. With one motor dead, with only two hours sleep since leaving England, the Britons triumphantly set their scarlet torpedo down in Melbourne at 3:34 p. m. In 71 hr. 1 min. 3 sec.-just under three days-they had flown halfway around the world...
...civilized world. The S.S. Titanic . . . struck a monster iceberg. The tragedy chilled our blood and stirred our hearts. Twenty-two hundred and eight human souls were on board; 1,501 were lost. . . . The great Captain E. J. Smith, as befits the heroism of the sea, stuck to the finish and went down with the ship. . . . His refusing to [save himself] gave even death a redeeming feature...
...Suddenly, when another delegate interrupted on a point of order, they beheld the lawyer falter. Quick tears came to his eyes. His knuckles grew white clenching the rostrum. While the Deputies hushed, he fought to control himself, finally spoke in a low, choked voice: "I find it impossible to finish what I was going to say. This means so much...