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Word: lapped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Should he decide to enter his team it is probable that they will run with Captain Merrill and Robb covering the 220 distances, Kane the 440 lap, and Watters the final half-time stretch. Staff opposition is looked for in this race, especially from Penn State, Yale, Georgetown, and Cambridge University, England. The finish is sure to be spectacular with Lowe, the English star and Heffrich of Penn State to oppose Watters over the 880-yards distance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PENN RELAYS ATTRACT 16 CRIMSON ATHLETES | 4/25/1924 | See Source »

Opposition in the medley race will be strong, particularly from Penn State, Yale, Georgetown, and Cambridge University, England. If the first three men of these universities keep a fairly even place, as predictions points that they will, the anchor men, who have the half mile lap, will run a spectacular race. Lowe, the ace of the English two-mile lap, will run a spectacular race. Lowe, the ace of the English two-mile relay team, Heffrich of Penn State, who ran the half mile in 1 minute 55 and 8-10 seconds in the intercollegiate meet last spring, and Watters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VANGUARD SETS OUT FOR PENNSYLVANIA | 4/24/1924 | See Source »

...Evelyn Nesbit, Thaw's former wife, rose from the bed on which she had been sitting in her ill-furnished hotel room; shook off the four griffons and the Albino Pekinese which had scrambled about her lap while she spoke; dashed to the mirror, seized a large comb and ran it through her black hair, which hangs to her shoulders in a long straight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Morons' Delight | 4/21/1924 | See Source »

...British plan to return on June 26. Lyons, Rome, Brindisi, Athens, Cairo, Karachai is their first lap. They will then go to Calcutta, across Burma to Hongkong and Tokyo, then across the Pacific to Vancouver, through Canada to Newfoundland, and then across the Atlantic to Lisbon, via the Azores, Paris, London. If all goes according to schedule, the two expeditions will cross each other's paths in Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Beat The Yanks! | 4/7/1924 | See Source »

FATA MORGANA?Elusive and sophisticated mockery of an amorous matron holding love's young dream in her lap for one night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Best Plays: Mar. 31, 1924 | 3/31/1924 | See Source »

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