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Word: lapped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Finishing with a fine last lap that left him nine-tenths of a second ahead of Harvard's Frannie Powers, the Springfield natator hung up a record of 2:18:8 for the furlong, best ever made in the league compromising the smaller colleges such as Amherst, Brown, Wesleyan, and Williams. Powers swam a strong race all the way, but Rawstrom's final surge carried him half a body's length ahead to win. Powers' time (unofficial), 2:19:7, was exactly the same as his clocking in the Freshman meet against Yale last year...

Author: By Charles F. Pollak, | Title: Swimmers Crush Springfield 59 to 16; Gymnast Rawstrom Cracks 220 Record | 1/12/1939 | See Source »

...walked her two innocent-looking daughters by Catanzaro, Geraldine, 18, and Isabel, 16. Their testimony made old Giacomo seem somewhat less a capon. They said they had entered their mother's kitchen one night in 1934, had found Negro Maid Carrie Cooper sitting in Stepfather Giacomo's lap. He was feeding her chocolate pudding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: What We Call Cornuto | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

...formally renouncing their plan for a 15% wage-cut, as recommended by President Roosevelt's fact-finding board (TIME, Nov. 7), the U. S. railroads dumped their whole rehabilitation problem into Mr. Roosevelt's lap. He promptly asked the six-man committee representing Management and Labor chosen by him in September, to work up a program of railroad legislation for him to present to Congress when it convenes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Chores & Plans | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

When Coach Jack Carr's soccer squad coasted over Brown last Saturday by a 2-1 count, it was a rejuvenated Crimson outfit once again on the march, this time in the last lap of their championship sprint. With a record untarnished except for a 3-3 tie with the Tigers, Captain Johnson and his versatile booting battalion have only Yale to trample under foot before assuming the crown of the New England League...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

...medley relay, consisting of two 440 laps, one 880, and one 1320 lap, a bellboy team of Tonkanow, Worman, Giveas, and Story came through for a win. Dencons Forbes, Baggerly, and Wntworth nosed out the Loverett trio in the high and low hurdle shuttle relay over a 100 yard stretch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Deacons Triumph is House Track Meet, Tallying 46 1-2 Points to Lowell's 31 | 10/28/1938 | See Source »

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