Word: lapped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strong argument against minimizing the final half-year is that Harvard requires fewer courses than most colleges already, making it up with tutorial and other extra-curricular study. The whole question settles down to the problem of giving every Senior every possible opportunity to make up that last lap and so get his degree. No general policy need be adopted; probably there will not be more than fifty or sixty cases, so that each can be considered individually. If Joe Doakes '42 can't finish up before he leaves, he should be encouraged to do so afterwards. A degree...
...still be a generation with millions of dollars already salted down and intended for gifts. Even though the end of the fifty year era of substantial bequests is in sight, there will be a few more sizable endowments. Unfortunately, donors often lay such costly luxuries in the University's lap that it doesn't pay to accept. Harvard's job as long as the flow of gifts keeps coming will be to sort the useful from the over-expensive, and to try to convince people who do have money to give away that what we need is general University funds...
...Nationalist platform, which calls for outright independence for the Philippines in 1946. But Manuel Quezon, whose passion for secession has been minified lately under the shadow of Japanese aggression, admitted to his people that independence now is in the hands of no one man or country, but in the lap of the gods...
What was Mediator Davis' chagrin to have Boss Lewis drop a time bomb in his lap at week's end. Mr. Lewis suddenly proclaimed that there would be a deadline to the truce...
This week, when Savannah Shipyards, Inc. clears its credit arrangements with Savannah bankers, Frank Cohen will be off on the third lap of a meteoric defense career. Frank Cohen's company, Empire Ordnance Inc. (whose stockholders own Savannah Shipyards), is less than one and a half years old. It began in May 1940 as a shoestring gamble whose only property was a broken-down 89-year-old iron foundry near Philadelphia called the Pencoyd Iron Works...