Word: lapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wayne County Airport, Mich, while Pilot Lowell Bayles flew his fat little Gee-Bee racer four times around official pylons 1.8 mi. apart. When Pilot Bayles landed his average speed had apparently smashed the world's landplane record of 278.4 m. p. h., held by France. On one lap he was checked at 295.86. Final calculations, however, gave him an average of only 281.9, less than the 4.97 margin allowed him to receive official credit. Moreover, no record would have been allowed because the timing camera failed to show his plane passing the pylon...
...jolly Christmas march from the Catalonian province, and the "Christmas Carol of the Pifferarl", a Neapolitan air. Of the carols that have not been done recently are "Glory to God in the Highest", by Pergolisi, "The Five Lesser Joys of Mary", by Warlock, "Upon Mr Lap My Sovereign Sits", by Person, "Christmas Bells", by Osgood, and "Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence", by Gustav Holst...
...that N. Y. C. was negotiating directly for a lower wage scale. Technically, railroads contract with the national organizations for their union labor. The reduction must be voluntary, under the law. If the railroads attempt to force a cut on employes, the entire issue will be thrown into the lap of the U. S. Board of Mediation for settlement...
...Dartmouth from time to time pop out into the urbane world just to see for itself how provincial this College can be. Think how many weeks it has been since a derby sat smartly on your head. Think how long it has been since you unfolded damask across your lap in sitting down to dinner. It is all very well to rusticate but it is not so fine to sink so deeply into country ways that you forget that Hanover is a very small town indeed and its customs very simple...
When the timing films had been developed and inspected about 4:30 a.m., officials found the flyer playing "shove ha'penny" in the messroom. They told him his average time was 408.8 m. p. h.; his best lap, 415.2 m. p. h. Said Lieut. Stainforth, "I thought I had done it," and turned back to his game...