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Word: lapping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that's why I'm getting all hot and perspiring. The sun has crept down and caught me. There is an empty chair over by that wall-eyed good He's got a book in his lap and his staring out the window. What is he staring at? The top of the pillars? Say, they've got nails stuck in all over them like a pincushion! What a dirty trick to play on the pigeons! Why shouldn't they build a nest over the steps if they want .... Oh, of course...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 6/7/1937 | See Source »

...only get back 50? in rebate, it would also get 5? for each barrel shipped by competitors. All this was wrathfully exposed time & again but after each outburst of public indignation, Rockefeller quietly worked out new and more devious arrangements with the railroads, tumbling more competitors into his lap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Last Titan | 5/31/1937 | See Source »

Yogins have eight different ways of breathing. Most effective posture for breathing is the lotus. One sits crosslegged, spine and head erect, hands crossed palm-upward on the lap, eyes focused either at the tip or the root of the nose. Expert yogins hold their breath four times as long as it takes them to inhale, and take the equivalent of two inhalation periods to exhale. Thus their breathing ratio is 1:4:2. They inhale once every two minutes. Beginners, advises Dr. Behanan, had better use at 1:2:2 rhythm, to prevent dizziness and anoxemia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Yale's Yogin | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

Still smiling as he swing into the last lap, "Butch" was a full half-length behind John Scruggs of Maysville, Ky. But he came in gamely in a bit under 15 minutes, panting: "I guess you boys...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Modern Hercules Takes On Full Relay Team for Beer | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

...Fascist is personable, passionate young Leon Degrelle, a dynamic demagog with a confident way of dashing about in high-powered cars, bounding up on platforms and generally acting and talking as if Belgium were a ripe plum just about to plump itself by an avalanche of votes into his lap-as Germany plumped into Hitler's. In his campaign speeches last week Orator Degrelle roared that his academic, scholarly opponent Premier Dr. Paul van Zeeland is "tainted with Americanisms," referred to Economist van Zeeland's professorial work at Princeton in scathing terms, accused him of "copying his economic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: Roey v. Rex | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

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