Word: lapped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Norris had little trouble pulling away from the Eli distancemen, increasing his lead from five feet after 40 laps to six after 50 and 15 after 60 lengths in the 65 1/2 lap grind in the new Princeton pool. His time was 19:40.6, nearly seven seconds ahead of Estoclet...
...first lap of her second U.S. tour (she sang Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde with the New York Philharmonic-Symphony under Bruno Walter last season), Kathleen finds she has little time now for anything but singing. After her U.S. tour there are two other big engagements on her schedule: 1) Amsterdam, where she will sing Orfeo again with San Francisco's Pierre Monteux conducting, 2) the Edinburgh Festival, where her old coach, Bruno Walter, has promised to be at the piano to accompany her recital...
...first lap of the postwar international air race, Britain had bet on the long-beaked Avro Tudor. Britain hoped the Tudor would help the nation get by without using U.S. planes until its jet transports were ready. The Ministry of Supply, which buys all aircraft for the government's three big international lines, ordered 16 Tudor Is for British Overseas Airways Corp. When the Tudor Is were tested, their performance was so poor that BOAC refused to accept them. Eventually British South American Airways took four Tudor IVs for its South Atlantic run and Avro kept on building them...
...winter sports still have a last lap to go. There will be swimming in the Blockhouse this weekend, basketball at the Arena, and hockey a little over 100 miles to the southwest...
Jack McIntyre, Dartmouth record-holder in the 100-yard freestyle, edged Joe Fox in the last lap of the 400-yard freestyle relay to give the Green a 43 to 32 victory over Hal Ulen's varsity swimmers at the Blockhouse Saturday night...