Word: lapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Warner of Yale, Harvard's crack relay team met defeat Saturday evening at the 44th annual B.A.A. games in the Garden. He started on his anchor leg eight yards behind Captain Philip Dodge, and won largely through a terrific burst of speed on the back stretch of the second lap, by a margin of two yards. Locke, Calvin, and Morse were the other Crimson runners. The time was 3 minutes, 27 seconds...
...Brawley, stableman of nth Street Garage, had to go without his supper at the entertainment and dance. By the way, Jim, we are all curious and want to know who is the girl on your lap...
Meanwhile thousands if not millions of Rumanians slipped from hand to hand with many a smirk picture postcards which suddenly appeared throughout the Kingdom. They showed a man with the head of King Carol holding on his lap a woman with the head of His Majesty's mistress, Mme Magda Lupescu. Purple in the face, a Court spokesman spluttered that "dastard enemies of His Majesty the King have concocted these slanderous photographs from models on whom heads have apparently been superimposed...
...Elizabeth Rhoda, 102, was too infirm to go out and vote for Hoover. The President wrote her: "I am deeply touched. . . . I will take the will for the deed." ¶ As a little girl Mrs. George Carleton Beal, 75, of Manhattan, once sat in Abraham Lincoln's lap. Since then she has always voted straight Republican. Said she: "But I'm for Roosevelt this time. What I want is a man of action. . . ." ¶ Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, famed feminist, declared for Hoover: ''This is no time to make over human society...
...profits in the struggling Curtiss organization. Oldsters recall one race, at Dayton in 1924, which "Casey" failed to win. As usual he loaded as little fuel as necessary into his ship. This time he underestimated the course by about one quart, dropped out of the lead on the last lap with a dead motor, ruefully watched the finish from the ground...