Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mile relay team's victory, helped materially. Bob Woodward almost nipped the favored Meaden of Cornell, but was turned back by about 10 yards. The principal cause of his defeat was the surprising bid made by Ed Messitt, Cornell Sophomore, who was leading going into the last lap. It took all Woodward had to garner three more points for Harvard...
Seven million dollars-the largest gift to higher education since George Eastman left 14 Kodak millions to the University of Rochester in 1932-fell last week into the lap of Chicago's Northwestern University. To Northwesterners the- size of the gift was no more gratifying than the donor, the late Roger Deering of the third generation of Chicago's famed, harvester- making Deering family. Roger's grandfather, William Deering of Maine, was nearing 50 when he visited the Midwest, found his old friend Elijah Gammon struggling with throat trouble and a manufacturing concession for Marsh harvesters. Elijah...
Last week, in Manhattan's Millrose Games, Mangan and Cunningham met again. Lap after lap Cunningham piled on speed, locked in a picture race with Mangan and Pennsylvania's Gene Venzke who followed in close Indian-file pursuit at his back. Coming out of the last turn, 40 yd. from the finish, Mangan gave his kick, sprinted. This time Cunningham did not swerve. Ten yards from the finish Mangan passed him and, timed at 4:11. won his fastest mile by a foot. A foot behind Mangan and a foot ahead of Cunningham, in a race that seemed...
...subject of diplomatic discord in London was a secret military alliance between Britain and Greece discovered last week in Athens to have been signed by restored King George II early in December but not registered at Geneva as required by the League Covenant. Into Mr. Eden's lap was dumped not only this but charges that Germany is now violating the Treaty of Versailles afresh by militarizing the "demililtarized" Rhineland, plus demands that Britain do something in support of what Mr. Eden calls "Collective Security" by France and her allies against the new German thrust...
...fall last fortnight, a golf-club maker and a pretty 21-year-old girl who claims to be a cousin of Herbert Hoover. She, Elizabeth Hoover of Kansas City, with her tall, blond Swedish partner, Wes Aronson of Chicago, was last week leading the Chicago Roller Derby by one lap. Roller Derbies are patterned roughly after six-day bicycle races. Contestants, male & female, sleep in full view of the spectators and each other on cots in the centre of the rink. They eat six meals and take three urine tests a day to satisfy health officials that they...