Word: lapped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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General MacArthur's "Old soldiers never die" lifted the tape on the wildest scramble the U.S. recording business has seen in years. Winner in the first lap was Columbia, which enlisted Gene Autry to put the old song...
...beat the Crimson team of Berman, Tom McGrath, John Packard, and Grutzner by inept passing of the baton. The Crimson's time of 3:21.4 was a meet record. In the 880 Bill Montague of the Crimson came in behind Sam Daniell of the Indians despite Dave Cairns' first-lap effort to set too fast a pace for Daniell...
...Golfer Babe Didrikson Zaharias, with a second-round 66 (equaling the women's world record), the first lap in the four-course Weathervane tournament; in Dallas. Next stop: Pebble Beach, Calif...
...Crimson began to close slightly the two length lead Cambridge had built up. As the shells skimmed by the Jordan Marsh building, approximately the mile and a half mark, the Crimson had sliced the visitors' margin to a few feet less than a length, but during the last lap, when both crews went up to about 37, superb precision and better condition paid off, and Cambridge pulled ahead a little shy of a half length more...
Confederacy understands the meaning and taste of sea power. Just think! Now all Chesapeake Bay lies open to us ... Why, within a few days we'll be throwing nine-inch shells into Abe Lincoln's lap...