Word: lapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bonthron, Cunningham and Venzke made it clear at the start that they were in no hurry. A 66-sec. first quarter, a 2.13 half, put the record out of danger just before Cunningham flashed out ahead of the field with Bonthron at his heels. Venzke joined them after a lap and the three ran five times around the track, each lap faster than the last. When they rounded the last turn, Bonthron was a full stride behind Cunningham. He made it up, an inch at a time, in the next 40 yards. Ten steps from the tape they were exactly...
...Gene Venzke, University of Pennsylvania sophomore and crack miler, for the third successive time: the "K. of C." mile, and permanent possession of the Mayor Curley Trophy: at Boston. The race ended farcically because a dreamy official sounded the "last lap" bell one lap too soon, throwing the runners into utter confusion...
...Roosevelt: 1) visiting Orange, Va., lunched in a tearoom where the proprietor's dog jumped in her lap; when the embarrassed proprietor hastily called "Come here. Hoover!" Mrs. Roosevelt smiled, patted the terrier affectionately; 2) was speaker at a dinner of 500 women conferees on the Cause and Cure of War, told them: "I believe any one who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide, but most people don't think. . . . How deadly stupid we are. . . ."; 3) turned over her regular press conference to Mrs. Mary Harriman Rumsey who told the disappointed newshawks...
...more business than in November 1932. And in spite of a two-month strike of tool and die makers, in spite of mechanical and style changes which seriously retarded the production of new models, the industry came into the New Year as if 1933 were but a preliminary lap and the National Automobile Show which opens this week in Manhattan were the starting line for a real exhibition of speed...
...Next Lap, Three new things in the automobile world were visible on 1934's New Year's Day: 1) slightly higher prices for the lowest priced cars to offset, in part, the rising cost of automobile materials; 2) independent front wheel suspension ("knees")-old to Europe-to make cars of General Motors, Chrysler and others "easier riding"; 3) streamlining in a big way-Walter Chrysler's bid to claim the distinction that he made the buggy a bugaboo. A few years ago a 22-year-old graduate of the University of Texas named Byron Cecil Foy began...