Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paris before the Normandie could be taken out to her dock. This week, while the Paris' passengers (and also Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh and two sons) were on the way to the U. S. on the Champlain the Sûreté had another mystery dumped into its lap. Tied up at her dock in Toulon, the 9,847-ton S. S. Angers was destroyed by fire...
Ever since he graduated from the University of Wisconsin 39 years ago, President Dixon has been making locomotives -first with American Locomotive Co., since 1916 with Lima. At 61 he is portly, neat, given to anecdote (Sally Rand's bubble once burst and landed in his lap; he swears "it wasn't my cigar that broke it"). An engineer who tinkers in his own machine shop in the cellar of his East Orange, N. J. home, he is also a good salesman, a rabid Republican. His chief irritation is that the view from his Manhattan window includes...
...Imperial's present printed instruction: "Lap straps. . . . Use is optional. . . . Company recommends that they shall be used . . . during take-offs and alighting. . . . If you wish to use . . . ask the Flight Clerk...
...years as Northwestern University's president, recently announced that he would go into well-earned retirement next June. Last week the final year of this phenomenal money-raiser was made memorable when, to his surprise, a man whom he scarcely knew dropped into the university's lap one of its biggest single gifts,* $6,735,000. The gift is to establish a Midwest institute of technology comparable to the East's M. I. T., the West's Caltech...
...clipped 1.6 seconds off the great Lloyd Hahn's indoor half-mile record of 1 :51.4 set in 1928, but Borican was dissatisfied. Said he: "I think I could have taken two seconds off my time tonight if I had . . . someone in front of me on the last lap...