Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fifth major industry to be brought under a permanent trade agreement, which affected some 300,000 factory workers, promised new jobs for some 40,000 more.* The motor code was flown by Army plane from Washington to the President's home at Hyde Park in the lap of Miss Frances ("Robbie") Robinson, pert secretary to Recovery Administrator Johnson. The President mulled over it in his cubby-hole study, talked with General Johnson by long-distance telephone, finally squiggled his name...
...starts, setting a world's record for a circular mile race of 1:34⅔. This year he has won all six of his races. The $17,230 he won last week made his total winnings $314,420-only less than Sun Beau's $376,744. Phar Lap's $332,250, Gallant Fox's $328,165. Two more races this season will give him a good chance to pass all but Sun Beau before he is retired for the winter. Grown docile, almost sleepy in demeanor, Equipoise gets a dinner of carrots before a race...
...downs, of course. Once or twice he was outbluffed. A race-track owner who had threatened to shoot Garr if his name was ever mentioned in the Chronicle started to act on his threat, camped in an office across the street with a rifle in his lap, waiting for Garr to appear. Warned in time, Garr sneaked in a back entrance. Day after day the patient rifleman waited. After a week's slinking Garr, worried lest the story of his plight leak out and raise a laugh at his expense, called off his ambusher by printing an apology. When...
...metropolis that began as a cast-off of the East as the East began as a cast-off of Europe. Chicago's chuffing, puffing yards constitute the railroad centre of the U.S. It holds the U.S. grain trade in its pits. Its stockyards are unmatched. In its grimy lap are a multitude of noisy industries (steel, cement, farm machinery, railroad supplies, foundry products, band instruments). Its mail order business reaches into the tiniest towns. In its convention halls more U.S. Presidents have been nominated than in any other city in the land. Its Negro population exceeds that of Kentucky...
...proud boast: "At the Order of Il Duce All Goals Are Reached." Special trains, with cheap excursion fares for the occasion, streamed in with thousands and thousands of countryfolk from all over Italy. The fever of excitement blazed higher and higher as the Balbo armada covered its final lap...