Word: lapped
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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...
...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...
...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...
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...
...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...