Word: lapped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the three remaining games on the schedule due to be played off this week, this spring's class baseball season is now entering its final lap for the year. The winner of the class championship which is already practically clinched by the Juniors, will face the Yale championship team on the Soldiers Field diamond Saturday afternoon...
While all Paris hoarsed a welcome, Costes and Lebrix flew in from Marseilles on the last lap of their journey. Heroes, they revealed a fact which seemed scandalous. They declared that the French government had hindered their flight in several instances by intimating through French consuls that they ought not to continue their hazardous program. The only effective aid vouchsafed to them by the State came, they said, indirectly through War Minister Paul Painleve...
...with A. A. Campbell '30 replacing J. De Wolf Hubbard '29 at No. 2 got away from the mark in front of the temporary bridge at 5 o'clock and rowing a 30-stroke beat reached the Harvard Bridge in 4 minutes 7 seconds. Pulling on to the last lap of the Henley distance, Captain John Watts '28 raised the stroke from that point on and sprinted the last part of the mile and three quarters distance, turning in a time of 10 minutes flat for the full course...
...taken Dieudonne Costes and Joseph Lebrix a little more than six days to complete the Tokyo to Paris (10,370 mi.) lap of the round-the-world flight which they started in October, with a hop across the South Atlantic. They had dallied in the U. S. and crossed the Pacific, which no man has ever spanned by air, in a boat. Their last spurt broke all speed records for the journey...
Friends clipped the reviews, carried them to a nursing home where lay Dramatist Moore, and piled the printed praise upon his lap. Dazed at first, he murmured, "My cup of bliss is full." Later the intoxication of success caused his Irish spirits to mount until he not only boasted of becoming "an idol of the English public" but added blatantly...