Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Governor Lehman was thinking of broadcasting a rebuttal to the Carlisle attack last week when the Federal Trade Commission, busy in Washington on its endless investigation of utility holding companies, dropped a big fat present into his lap. Staged or spontaneous, the present served to dramatize the hoary old charge that the "power trust" bought its way to political power. The Trade Commission turned up four letters written by a New York State Senator to officials of Associated Gas & Electric Co., an involved holding company at which many of the Governor's bills are directly aimed. Republican Warren...
...Went to the White House-Anna Roosevelt Dall- Macmillan ($2). Babs and Dave booed a Presidential conference into silence to introduce to Grandfather a red-painted, white-coated, blue-collared rabbit named Scamper. "Welcome to the White House," said Grandfather. Scamper followed the children to Grandfather's lap, flopped his ears, ignored the conferring statesmen. That afternoon Babs and Dave took Scamper on a tour of Washington, laughed when he was unable to identify as the Treasury the building in which "dollars and quarters grow." Taken on Grandfather's yacht to Mount Vernon, he succeeded in ripping great...
...ting any firsts. Dupuy, a daring driver who heeled his boat around the buoys so sharply that it resembled an oldtime cinema comedian turning a street corner, got away fast and held the lead for one complete circuit of the course. Tennes, away third, passed Everett on the first lap, caught Dupuy on the second. Chewing gum furiously, hunched in his cockpit like a football lineman, he drew away steadily for the next four laps, roared across the finish line with nearly a mile of open water behind him. Outboard motorboat racing depends partly on the motor, partly...
...upon the outcome of the really event. The fastest time of the Eli relay men is three minutes and 53 seconds, while the best time yet turned in by Crimson is two seconds in excess of the Yale record. Rogers and Cooke for the Yale quartet consistently swim their lap of the relay in 55 seconds. The other two members of the team, Christner and Willcox, are minute men. Since the Crimson relay swimmers average about the same speed, it is exceedingly difficult to make any prophecy as to the outcome of the event...
...boat, this time ahead of the others and traveling at nearly 60 m.p.h. The boat leaped into, the air and an official's launch picked up Ellsworth, unhurt except for a cut lip. Tennes, in second place when Ellsworth spilled, heard his spark plugs sputtering on the next lap. He waved to Jean Dupuy who passed him on the last lap and won easily, with his teammate Baron Alain de Rothschild third...