Word: lap
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With 20 yards to go in the 22-lap race, anchorman Jeff Campbell was tripped by an usher who had stepped on the track to retrieve some peanut shells thrown from the stands. Before the accident, Harvard was in fourth place, and challenging for third...
Some task force members fear that failure to reach agreement in the task forces and coordinating committee could throw the final educational decisions into Rosovsky's lap, rendering worthless years of work and the dean's carefully devised system. Rosovsky rejected this notion ("I hope you don't have an army view of the way things work") and insists that, although he is chairman of the coordinating panel, each of its members has an equal voice. And to act by fiat, Rosovsky adds, would only be to doom his efforts to failure: "This faculty is self-governing in educational matters...
After the final win, the team took a victory lap en masse around Jadwin's 220-yd. track and in anticipation of Saturday's Heptagonal meet at Cornell, yelled thunderously, "Heps! Heps! Heps...
...opening event, Essick swam one of his most unusual lineups of the season in the 400 medley relay. Malcom Cooper led off with the backstroke lap followed by Kevin O'Connell swimming breaststroke. John Craig flew and captain Mark Depman anchored the team. Depman just touched out his Cornell counterpart, edging him by a mere eight hundredths of a second...
...went out too fast after Loughran," Canales said yesterday. "I soon realized I couldn't catch him and slowed down, but by 500 yards I was tired, and at 700 Maass caught me." The two dueled for 250 yards, but on the gun lap, Canales started to pull ahead. "I gave it all I had and beat him," Canales said...