Word: lapped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Knutson still held out for something closer to the Ruml plan; he hoped for many a Congressman's conversion while home for the Easter recess. Dopesters agreed that the House would finally pass some kind of tax bill, to throw it, as usual, in the Senate's lap for rewriting...
...born in the Virgin Islands, of French and Danish parents. Schooled in Corsica and Paris, at 19 he was an up-&-coming banker in Manhattan, grew a luxuriant beard to disguise his youth. While on a trip to Puerto Rico the local telephone company almost fell into his lap. He went into the telephone business, in 1924 got King Alphonso of Spain to contract for I.T. & T. telephone service in Spain. Last week cosmopolitan Mr. Behn reported that seme 61% of I.T. & T.'s assets are in the Americas (mainly Argentina, Chile, Mexico and Cuba...
With 14 months to go to convention time, John Backer's candidacy is in the lap of world events and U.S. public opinion. By next summer, the U.S. will have measured all Republican candidates against the Ten Presidential Commandments. (There is no need to measure the only Democratic candidate: the U.S. is coming to know Mr. Roosevelt's measurements.) The process will go on with Messrs. Thomas E. Dewey, Wendell Willkie, Earl Warren, Leverett Saltonstall, et al. Then the voters may be happy to vote according to the Ten Presidential Commandments, with no questions asked. Or they...
Franklin Roosevelt's postwar social security program plumped last week into the lap of Congress. Thumbing through the 721 type-packed pages, hoisting the 5¾ Ib. of solid weight, blinking at the long footnotes. Congressmen tried valiantly to say something equally weighty...
...young Dixon ran a tactically perfect race, showing the stamina gained in years of crosscountry running. He kept well behind Defending Champion Gilbert Dodds, the Boston divinity student who invariably sets an exhausting pace from gun to gun. At least 12 yards behind as they went into the final lap, Dixon came through with a finishing kick that beat Dodds by a full yard. Time: 4 min. 9.6 sec.-only 2.2 seconds behind the world's indoor record. If Frank Dixon was not a Jesse Owens of the Mile, he was decidedly impressive...