Word: lapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stanford's Ben Eastman, who set a world's half-mile record two years ago, ran his race agains Charles Hornbostel of Indiana, who hai equaled Eastman's time last year. East man was away first, 8 yd. ahead at the first turn of the last lap. Hornbostel cut it down to 4 yd. and then dropped back a yard as Eastman, running with all his oldtime smoothness, whisked across the finish. Eastman's time, a full second faster than anyone has ever run a clocked half mile before, was1...
...produced a fine, pink 7 Ib. Prince. Not a Crown Prince, for Their Majesties already had a three-year-old-son, slim little Baudoin who embarrassed his parents while the King was being sworn in by slipping off his big arm chair and climbing into Queen Astrid's lap (TIME, March...
August discovers that he is not so poor as he thought. With a windfall in his lap he neglects to keep the necessary firm grip on his skittish character. He falls ridiculously in love, squanders his money on a grandiose scheme, and finally meets an appropriate but not altogether tragic fate. His author's verdict on him is stern but not unkindly: "It was his mission in life to father all forms of progress and development, and he had left behind him desolation in one form or another wherever he had gone. He was ignorant and therefore innocent...
...Gras is to New Orleans and the Derby to Louisville, the 500-mile classic is to a city which once rivaled Detroit as an automobile manufacturing centre. Last week a crowd of 135,000 was sitting in the unroofed stands when the 33 cars, after gathering speed for a lap, rolled past the starter in groups of three. Around the 2½-mile brick oval with an unsteady, insistent roar, sidling awkwardly at the turns, straightening out for speed on the straightaways, whirled the bright-hued machines hardly bigger than toy-store cars. After 30 miles George Bailey of Detroit...
...Mauri Rose, driver of the Duray, who had led the race from the 250-mile post to the place where Cummings passed him 200 miles farther on, learned that he had lost by 27 seconds. On the ground that Cummings had illegally gained three quarters of a lap while the cars were supposed to have slowed down, Rose's backers lodged a protest which held up payment of the prize money pending a decision by the American Automobile Association contest board...