Word: lapped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Forty-five minutes later, Captain Harvey's Viking was 3,500 ft. over the English Channel, the air was smooth, the sky clear. The plane's youngest passenger, a three-month-old girl, slept in her mother's lap. Hostess Cramsie had just walked to the rear of the plane to fix a cold snack for the other passengers. Later, only one passenger had a definite idea of what happened next. Paul Wolf, holiday-bound with his wife and daughter, thought he saw a pale, blue flash through the porthole...
...hard times to easy virtue. First, like many of her fans, she is a shiny-nosed household drudge, bored and burdened with a husband who doesn't understand her. Escaping rebelliously, she becomes a cynical tart with a burlesque strut. Finally, having double-crossed her way onto the lap of an underworld titan, she acquires all the graces of a society matron. Along the way, Joan proves the undoing of four tall, handsome men, including Kent Smith, an honest but weak accountant, and David Brian, a pseudo-respectable gangland big shot with a taste for Etruscan vases...
...Gehrmann and Fred Wilt raced into the final lap of the Bankers' Mile in Chicago Stadium one night last week, a double team of judges including the great Jesse Owens carefully watched the finish tape. There was to be no repetition or the row over the famed Wanamaker Mile in Manhattan seven weeks ago, when the judges disagreed over the winner and blocked the view of the photo-finish camera that might have settled the matter.*But as it turned out, any extra precautions were unnecessary...
Homeward bound and off the mouth of the Amazon one day in 1898, Slocum sighted the battleship Oregon heading toward him. On the last lap of her dash from the Pacific to get into the Spanish-American War, the Oregon hoisted the signals "C B T" which meant "Are there any men-of-war about?" To show which kind of warships she was looking for, the Oregon broke out a Spanish flag. Joshua Slocum answered "No." He could not resist adding: "Let us keep together for mutual protection." The Oregon's only acknowledgment was to dip her flag three...
...secured to this institution than to any other of our acquaintance. Correspondence will be kept up with persons in the service of the university living at London, Edinburgh, Paris, Rome, Copenhagen and Calcutta. Whatever is valuable in the laws and usages of nations . . . will be copiously poured into the lap of this institution...