Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...started back through the ruffled water for the final dash. As if a private current favored her, Miss McKean drew smoothly ahead in the last 25 meters, touched the wall a full three yards ahead. Later in the same afternoon, swimming with a precise cadence of 51 strokes per lap for 32 laps, Miss Kight consoled herself by winning the mile swim...
Johnny fears nothing, does everything he is told. At home he shinnied up the brace of the kitchen sink and turned on the faucet to lap a drink. He jumped off the ice box into his father's arms. He crawled up on one of the gratings which guard every window of the Wood apartment and almost fell to the sidewalk. He poked his head through the cover of the radio loud speaker. At the small table where he eats with Jimmy he showed adequate table manners, dunked his bread in his soup, smiled easily at company...
...When the bell rings, open your mouth, stop up your ears, shut your eyes and you'd better stand up because sparks are not so apt to land in your lap," said the mild-mannered, middle-aged man who was running the show. "Better wear a hat, too, if you have...
Because France has won the last four races, one of her sons is confidently expected to repeat this year. Chief French hopes are Georges Speicher, last year's winner who has enough spare breath during the race for a steady stream of quips and japes; Roger Lapébie. bashful young Bordelais who won seven major events in 1933; Antonin Magne, laconic Auvergnat farmer who is called "The eternal runner-up''; Charles Pélissier, cameo-profiled idol of schoolboys. Dashing, excitable captain of this year's French team, Pelissier has won important races...
...lissier, Lapébie and Speicher are sprint specialists. Best climber in the race is Vicente Treuba, "Le Roi des Montagnes,'' a minuscule Spaniard who propels his 110-lb. body up the steepest slopes without leaving the saddle...