Word: lapping
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...bicycle team in the 1932 Olympic Games, stayed with the leaders until the sixth day when the Italian-French team of Paul Brocardo and Marcel Guimbretiere moved out in front. Daring, fast, both fine sprinters, Brocardo and Guimbretiere went into the last hour of continuous sprinting three full laps ahead. Debaets and Thomas made up one lap but that was the best that they could hope to do. First to ride around the track with the basket of flowers that goes to the winners (beside a cash prize of $5.000) were Brocardo and Guimbretiere. Loudest cheers from a heavily...
Second race. Fighting to get back the lead he lost on the first lap, Dupuy tried to nose inside Tennes on the sharp turns, twice almost succeeded before Tennes won, with Ellsworth third...
...first five laps were fast but the race really started on the sixth when Cunningham pushed up into the lead. Venzke and then Bonthron followed him. With two laps to go, Venzke caught up with Cunningham and passed him. Half a lap before the end of the race, Cunningham repassed Venzke. Bonthron started his sprint coming around the last turn. He passed Venzke on the outside and started down the straightaway toward the tape, four yards behind Cunningham. Thirty yards from the tape, the gap began to melt. The finish duplicated the finish of the first race, except that...
...Madison Square Garden. The track, twenty-seven feet wide, is divided into two sections. The outer section is 160 meters around and has four lanes; the inner one is 133.33 meters with five lanes. All the distance races will be started on the inner track, and after a lap the runners will be shunted onto the outer track. Between the two tracks there is a broad white line. If a runner on the outside track steps on the line he is automatically disqualified. The curves on the track are banked sharply very much like a railroad track. A man running...
...announcement of the President's order, there came, of course, the expected reverberations from the expected people. The two principal protestants were the National Association of Manufacturers and the United States Chamber of Commerce, both organizations bellowing against the monopoly which was, in their estimation, being placed in the lap of Labor. The roar goes up, "What about the self-government of industry?", a roar which rather well illustrates the position of the compliance division in the eyes of these gentlemen. There can be no doubt, I think, that the Executive order was the best of the alternatives open...