Word: lapped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Caught at the Tape. He was in front by a couple of yards and running strongly as the gun popped for the final lap. Then the crowd started to scream-Gehrmann was coming to life on the backstretch. He was second as he came off the turn. Twenty yards from the finish he was trailing by five feet. He gathered speed, plunged desperately, caught Wilt at the tape...
Socks & Tabletops. The son of a St. Petersburg banker, Leonid started to draw, he says, "on the lap of my mother." He fled from the Bolsheviks to Paris, studied art there and began, after a 1926 vacation at St. Tropez, to paint the seashore scenes that have occupied him ever since...
...feet padding too close to him, he spurted again. As his lead widened to 15 yards, friends shouted, "Slow down, Herb! Slow down!" He had stepped the first 440 yards in 48.8 seconds, near-record time, but it was too fast a pace for the 600. With half a lap to go he began to stagger, and Brooklyn's Frank Fox made a bid to pass...
With Army leading, 30 to 29, the vis- itors needed at least a second place in the 440-yard freestyle to stay in the meet. Bob Tolf put on a spirited last lap drive, and it was just enough to nip Joe Knittle by a touch, as Army's Jack Craigie...
...Perlea acquired some of his operatic versatility clandestinely. Son of an "incredibly rich" land-owning Rumanian father and a German mother, in school he used to study scores instead of his Latin, hiding them on his lap in the classroom. He studied piano, cello and violin ("The piano is the instrument I play least badly"), later studied composition at the Munich Conservatory. By the time he was 21 he was conducting at the Leipzig Opera House; at 29 he was general manager of the Bucharest Opera. In 1944, the Nazis interned both Jonel and his writer wife for refusing...