Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...offered by the Boston Globe for the best time for a flight to Boston Light and return twice, were inducements which led to some spectacular exhibitions. The prizes were distributed among the events as follows: speed, $6,000; altitude, $6,000; duration, $4,000; distance, $4,000; slow lap, $1,500; getaway, $150; accuracy, $750; dropping bombs on dummy battleship, $5,000; Boston Globe special, $10,000. One world's record was broken, that for accuracy in landing; and the American records for duration and distance were surpassed...
...miles, thereby breaking two American records and winning first place in both these events. In accuracy in landing he established a new world's record, bringing his biplane to a stop within 5 feet, 4 inches of a given mark. He also took second in the slow lap event...
This was the first trial since the beginning of spring practice, and nearly all the distance men of both the University and Freshman track teams were entered. The race was very close until the beginning of the last lap, when Newton, Withington, and Everett gradually drew away from the rest of the squad. On the last turn Newton sprinted and drew away from Withington and Everett. No time was given...
...Club track meet, held in Mechanics Hall Saturday evening, was the relay race between the University and the Boston Athletic Association teams. Harvard won a keenly contested race in the excellent time of 3 min., 13 2-5 sec., Merrihew beating out Gram by six yards in the last lap, after both had fallen. In the first relay, R.C. Foster '11 ran against E. E. Nelson of the B. A. A., and the former, although the farther from the pole, jumped into the lead, and held it until the last corner, when the two finished on even terms...
...special 780-yard rice for Harvard men proved to be very evenly contested. S.C. Simons '11 took the lead at the start and held it until the last lap, when W.H. Fernald '12 passed him, with G.W. Ryley '10 and R. Warren '10 closely following. The men finished in this order, the time being...