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Word: lapped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...adoption, who sailed the last legal slaver before the trade was outlawed. Forced thereafter to bootleg his valuable black cargo, he practiced the proverbial sardine economy of space in his barracoon, packing his human loot spoon fashion, so that each wretch lay curved in his neighbor's lap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bootleg Blacks | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

...lap of the T. A. T., put into operation last week, was between Chicago and St. Paul-Minneapolis. The schedule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Air-Rail | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

Forgotten Faces. She is sitting at a piano, playing idly. Suddenly, she stops; curls her fingers, tigress-like. There is a man standing near her. She seizes him, pulls him down on her lap, bites the back of his neck, twists a handful of his hair. Then she stands up, arches her spine, leads the man into a bedroom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Aug. 20, 1928 | 8/20/1928 | See Source »

...with one punch but who couldn't lay a glove on Champion Samuel Mandell, feinted with his left last week in Madison Square Garden, then crossed his right to the retreating but tough chin of Phillip McGraw, lightweight from Marathon, Greece, knocking him through the ropes into the lap of one of the judges. McGraw climbed back, was knocked down three times more, after which, amid cries of "Stop it," Referee Dorman lifted Mc-Larnin's hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fisticuffs | 7/2/1928 | See Source »

...rare beast as well as one unreal; to capture the unicorn, one must first capture a virgin and induce her to sit still upon the ground. The unicorn, attracted by a purity akin to his own, might come and lay his shaggy, frightened head upon her lap. Then hunters might come up and kill him with their spears. In the legends written in ancient bestiaries only two hunters pursued the timid freak: one of these was Gabriel and the other was his Lord. The seven virtues were their hounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Pioneers | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

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