Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...salesman, graduate of an elementary school, stumbles along at the rate of 156 words a minute, never reads books or magazines. Miss A, a college graduate and school administrator, can lap up 600 words a minute, reads nine magazines regularly, keeps two library cards busy...
...Raymond Lee Ditmars, famed herpetologist of the New York Zoological Park ("Bronx Zoo"), has discovered that vampire bats from the American tropics do not, as commonly supposed, suck blood from the animals on which they feed. They lap it up, the tongue darting in & out of the wound four times a second. When Dr. Ditmars brought back four vampires from Trinidad, it seemed a good chance for scientists to check another theory-that the bat's saliva contains some substance which prevents blood from coagulating and so keeps the nutrient liquid flowing freely...
After setting out on a hazardous, snow-covered, 19-mile lap from Shippensburg, Pa., the group has not been heard from for the first time in its trip, which commemorates the pioneer movement of 150-years...
...m.p.h. official world record would fall. Last week it did. Captain Eyston guided his 6-wheeled, 7-ton contraption over the same course to an official 311.42 m.p.h. Said he: "It was a hell of a run and I don't mean that profanely." During his second lap, on which he averaged 317 m.p.h. his goggles came loose and he had to adjust them while he drove with one hand...
...Divo was in Panama City during the month of September 1936 and at that time arrangements were made for his continued use of Essolube Motor Oil for the Northern lap of his trip from Buenos Aires to New York. From this point contact was made with our representatives in San Jose, Managua, Tegucigalpa, San Salvador and Guatemala City requesting that the proper courtesies be extended upon his arrival. The Huasteca Petroleum Co. of Mexico was also notified with the request that they in turn contact associate companies across the U. S. border. We, therefore, were most interested in reading...