Word: lapped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...additional half million dollars will fall into the lap of the University when the will of Hetty Green Wilks, daughter of female financier Hetty Green, is finally probated, an accounting of the will revealed Wednesday. The University's share, originally estimated at $2,000,000, is now thought...
Fifteen undergraduate orators were chosen semi finalists yesterday from a field of 51 competitors in the opening lap of the Boylston Public Speaking Contest held in Paine Hall. Usually, finalists are picked directly: the extra step was added because of the large turnout...
...seen walking in brilliant sunshine with a raised umbrella over his head; his wife had put it up for him during the last rain, and he had since seen no reason to put it down. A waitress who brought him two poached eggs saw them fly into his lap when he struck the table to drive home a point; they remained there, unnoticed and unfelt, even when he paused in his argument to cry: "Waitress, will you please bring me two more poached eggs? I seem to have lost the others...
...Ashenfelter hit the last quarter-mile, the track-wise crowd was doing more than buzzing; they had already started applauding. And for the full minute-plus of the last quarter, the handclapping grew in volume. They burst into cheers when Wilt tore into the lead at the gun lap. As he pounded into the final turn, six yards ahead of Ashenfelter, the crowd stood up in spontaneous ovation. Wilt hit the wire in 8:50.7, the fastest two-mile ever run indoors, breaking Rice's 1943 record by three-tenths of a second.* Ashenfelter's effort, his best...
Dave Ingle is the distance man. Ingle, cross country captain, won the 1000, mile, and anchored the 220 lap relay against Brown. McCurdy thinks he is going to be "a great runner for Harvard." Marshall Childs is the number two miler...