Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...public works he could get his costs down to $959-but most cities and states are too hard pressed to leap at the chance. The President said nothing, but Washington was certain that the bulk of the $4,000,000,000 was going eventually to drop into the lap of Harry Hopkins. He alone needs little stone or steel, can put a white collar man on the payroll at a cost of 20? (for pencil and paper), a laborer at a cost of $1 (for a rake). For his $4,000,000,000 last week it looked...
...Cunningham sped out in front of the quartet. By the first quarter they were dogging each other in Indian file. At the half they spread in echelon, Cunningham in the lead. A slow third quarter saw Venzke trailing and by the time the gun rang out for the last lap it looked as if the long office hours in a Manhattan accounting firm were going to put Bonthron out of the race. Then things began to happen. Sailing down the home stretch with his mincing gait, Jack Lovelock stepped a full eight yards out in front of Cunningham, whose stocky...
...held it ever since, knew then that if his car held together he could not fail to win. It held together. Officials checked his time, found that with 106.24 m.p.h. average for 500 miles, he had set a new record for the Indianapolis Memorial Day Classic. Second, nearly a lap behind, was Wilbur Shaw of Indianapolis. Third was "Wild Bill" Cummings, winner...
With the money in his pocket, Gypo, instead of completing his plan, goes on an astounding nightmare spree. He gulps down a bottle of whiskey. At the McPhillip wake, he astounds Mrs. McPhillip (Una O'Connor) by pouring four silver coins into her lap. He bashes a policeman on the jaw, harangues the crowd that gathers to applaud him, buys the company beer and chips. He creates a scene in a brothel and then completes his ruin at a Sinn Fein meeting-where he has been promised reinstatement if he tracks down the spy who betrayed McPhillip-by bringing...
Finally beginning to reach the form that Coach Hodder hoped to see long ago, the Varsity golfers will go into the last lap of their schedule with a good chance of ranking high in the Eastern Intercollegiate Golf League...