Word: lapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...elaborate snowplow equipment for the regular spring overhaul last week when suddenly the first May blizzard since 1685 overwhelmed Central and Western Poland with from six to 20 inches of snow. Canceled were all parades on the Polish National Holiday. Prosperous Poles went Maying in sledges piled with fur lap robes...
...took the trouble to inquire about his life found great gaps in the Parish career. He had bummed his way around the West riding the rails. He had set himself up in machinery business in Chicago. The War dumped fat marine contracts into his lap. but the post-War collapse nearly ruined him. He and his brother had procured an old sailboat, picked up peaches at night in Michigan for 90? a bu. and sold them in Chicago next morning for $3. Finally Frank Parish had turned up in Kansas City selling gas pipes. What gas men wanted to know...
...with the brightness of a newly risen sun. The New Deal-besides its large home schemes -has an even bigger scheme afoot: to make silver once more a world money metal. Beholding this sun, the silver world went wild and the New Deal had an international problem in its lap...
...Hines of Boston College, whose coach claims that he is capable of a 4:20 mile. If he shows up as well as his coach predicts tomorrow, the race should prove the high spot of the meet, with Scheu, Jenkins, and Hines fighting it out on the home lap...
Playfair should romp home in the 3000 meter without much trouble. In his last race the Tri Meet at the Boston Garden--he finished a full half-lap ahead of his nearest opponent...