Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have been reading TIME faithfully for three years and this is the only criticism I can make. I just lap it up with complete satisfaction...
Another protective device fixed in most planes nowadays is a broad canvas belt to be strapped across the passenger's lap. It keeps him from being tossed out of an open plane and, in case of crash, from being hurled the length of the cabin. When necessary he can unfasten the belt in less than one second...
...small iron bench in the Pincian Hill gardens slept a holy man. His breviary had fallen from his lap to the grassy turf. Children gravely gathered beside him, for it seemed to them there could be no mistaking the man's grey hair, his glasses, his still, regular features. "Is it he?" whispered one to another...
...dime. Yeah, a lot bigger. Better, too. This here tastes like oatmeal. Don't you eat there any more? I used to, too. The fellow got sore one time, though. I was balancing a glass of milk on my knife blade and it spilled all over somebody's lap and they kicked...
...Knights of Columbus games at the Garden last Saturday night, the Crimson captain gave Lermond a stiff battle, matching strides with the Olympic man throughout the last quarter of the mile race. Only a spurt by Lermond on the last lap which gave him an eight yard lead, was all that defeated the University runner. Last Saturday Reid was in the midst of a stiff midyear examination schedule, and as a result was not quite up to his usual form...