Word: lapped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...winner-declined to let the race proceed until someone was killed. Frank Lockhart of California, driving a Miller Special at an average speed of 94.63 miles an hour, crossed the 400-mile mark first, received $20,000 for winning the race, $9,600 more for covering the fastest lap, $10,000 more from accessory manufacturers. Second: Harry Hartz also in a Miller Special. Third: Cliff Woodbury in a Boyle Special...
Before the dinner each of the assemgled guests was given a certificate recounting the achievements he had hung up in previous meets. Henry McDevitt, a Dartmouth track star who was described on the program as being a lap ahead of all the other contestants, led a number of college songs, after which the meeting was given over to speeches...
...outcry of the malcontents is unanswered. The Democratic leaders are not great enough to forego a small profit for a chance of a greater, to swing a united party behind them into the battle line and lay the fortunes of their party upon the lap of the gods. They have no great benefactor of mankind to teach us new dissatisfactions?the stuff of which our issues are made...
...cheek-pouches in which she could carry food. Her fingers would bend until they lay flat on the back of her hand. She had two marmosets which she fondled like children, and indeed they bore a noticeable resemblance to her; they would sit in her lap, gazing with sad eyes into her underslung face. She spent her spare time crocheting, but she read widely and spoke four* languages. Cultivated people were astonished when they talked with...
Gravely he turned to the father, who had come up, to the mother, who stood by trembling. There is a needle in your child's brain! When could that have happened? Perhaps when she was cradling her baby in her lap as she darned away. She could not tell. For the needle to puncture the infantile skull was easy. At five months the bones of the skull are comparatively soft. They have not yet closed completely, are joined together by tough membrane which in the embryo was the sole case of the brain (TIME, March...