Word: lapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Three years earlier he had begun his larger work. So well did he succeed that his sixth volume (The War for Southern Independence) won the 1925 Pulitzer prize. In 1929 he retired from teaching at Harvard, where his "History 10" was a popular course, and began the last lap of his race with Death, saying: "Two more volumes will come if the gods permit...
...already. Worse, what if those thin majorities and this widening breach were replicas of what happened in the years 1910 and 1912? Then the G. O. P. lost Congress, split at its presidential nominating convention, allowed the Presidency to fall between the stools of Taft and Roosevelt into the lap of Woodrow Wilson. To professionally political Insurgents, thought of a third party was sobering for other reasons. The time to bring forth a new political organism is obviously right after, not long before, the two old parties have published their platforms and nominated their men for a Presidential election...
...Yamanashi Prefecture, 70 mi. from Tokyo. Musical instrument dealers bought bowls of sacred rice, hoped business would be better. Foreigners inspected the statue with interest. They saw a heroic bronze figure in the robes of a Buddhist priest but with the head of a large shaggy dog. In his lap rested a Buddhist nun with the head of a cat. Balanced precariously on top of the dog-headed priest was a little figure of Buddha, blessing the pair...
...yard run were J. E. Rogerson '34, Avery Sawyer '34, second, and R. F. Estes '34, third. After a series of elimination heats, J. J. Hayes, Jr. '34, and D. B. Cheek '34, came in first and second, in the 35-yard high-hurdles. Three one-lap relay races were held, in which the following were the victorious teams: R. B. Ford '34, and B. H. Englander '34; H. B. Brown '34, F. P. Cahill '34, I. W. Rabinowitz, and H. S. Sise '34; W. H. Hatch '34, J. J. Hayes, Jr. '34, G. M. Williams...
...track season of 1930 to a close, has been provided as an incentive to the track-work of the past two or three weeks. It has been planned to consist of four events: the 35-yard dash, the 35-yard high-hurdles, a SSO-yard race, and a one-lap relay race. At the same time, in the Old Cage, the final event of the University Fall Handicap meet will be played off. It will be the 35 pound hammer-throwing contest, which was indefinitely postponed last autumn on account of lack of the necessary equipment...