Word: lapped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard came off with a 46 1/3 to 44 2/3 triumph over the Army trackmen at West Point Saturday afternoon by virtue of a win in the one lap relay and six much-needed points in the broad jump. Valuable points in the hurdles, the pole vault, and the high jump early in the afternoon kept the Mikkolamen close to the Cadets until the last two events...
...Year Hitler conquered without fighting in Austria and at Munich, as they did in 1939 when Man of the Year Stalin got half of Poland by a shrewd deal and a free hand to work his will on Finland. But 1940 did not fall like a plum into the lap of the Dictators. One of them, Benito Mussolini, thinking conquest was easy, proved the year's greatest flop. Another, Joseph Stalin, lost several teeth before he chewed off an edge of tough little Finland. A third, Adolf Hitler, was more successful...
...signal for it came not from Business, but from events. Within 15 days of France's fall, the Army & Navy began to dump orders of $41,000,000 a day in industry's lap. The important fact about these orders was that they were for capital goods. For the first time in more than a decade, industry's prime mover-capital-goods expansion-agitated the indexes again. The steel rate soared from 60% of capacity (April) to 92% in September. At 11:30 p.m., on Dec. 9, steelworkers finishing the second shift also finished an era. They...
...back into the steel business. In 1940 he yielded his news value to others. Mr. Weir is a salesman, and in 1940's market all the salesmen went fishing. It was a productionman's show. Shrewd Old Dealer Eugene Grace opened his mouth just wide enough to lap up the cream of the business. He also took the lead in cooperating with the New Deal's exhortations to expand: $100,000,000 worth, half of which was Government money. On the rest, he got a favorable amortization deal from the Treasury for tax purposes...
This afternoon the final events will be held at fifteen minute intervals, beginning at 2 o'clock. The 40-yard high hurdles, 40-yard dash, 300-yard run, 600-yard run, and a two lap relay will be held at Briggs Cage, in that order...