Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stowell (now a distance man), and Bob White, who will be recovered from the effects of an appendectomy soon, he'll be doing a grand job. Big Jim Curwen, an All-American 100 man two years ago, is now working out and will be trying to bring his four-lap efforts down to the 53's again. A great deal of laboratory work is the biggest obstacle to Jim's breaking into the 52-second class again, so until the season is well under way, he must be regarded as an enigma...
Meanwhile Peary, a Navy engineer, was starting his eighth try for the goal he had missed for 20 years. In the spring of 1909, at latitude N. 87° 47', he began the famed last lap, alone except for his Negro servant and four Eskimos. His claim: That in five days he covered the remaining 150 miles to the Pole (April 6), made the necessary observations, left a fragment of the flag and a message in a snow cairn, traveled the 150 miles back to the camp at 87° 47' in 56 hours...
...That Peary did not take enough observations on the last lap, took no longitude observations...
...MORGAN IS IN THE SENATOR'S OPINION A MERCHANT OF DEATH. ALONE OF THE SENATE MUNITIONS COMMITTEE VANDENBERG CONSPICUOUSLY AND WARMLY SHOOK HANDS WITH MORGAN . . . AND THERE ARE POSSIBLY MORE PICTURES IN EXISTENCE OF VANDENBERG AND MORGAN TOGETHER THAN THERE ARE OF MIDGETS SITTING ON MORGAN'S LAP. HOW MANY PICTURES CAN YOU FIND OF SENATORS SHAKING J. P. MORGAN'S HAND...
...airliner, is to sell radio advertisers on the idea of distributing war maps and sets of colored pins to the audience, hiring military experts to digest the news of the day, analyze the tactics, then devoting five sponsored minutes each evening on the air telling map-in-lap listeners where and why to shift their pins...