Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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However uninspiring, the 280 m.p.h. mark earned an additional $1,135 for Roscoe Turner, the able, gaudy flyer who collected $5,050 last fortnight by winning the transcontinental Bendix Trophy Race. Last week his Wedell-Williams racer flashed off a 249 m.p.h. lap downwind...
From a flying start in front of the grandstand Roscoe Turner and Jimmy Wedell vanished neck-&-neck into the haze. At the end of the first 10-mi. lap Turner roared around the home pylon in the lead. But when they popped out of the mist again, null was in front. Then Turner took the lead, held it to the end of the race...
Long after the applause died down, a muttering arose from the judges' stand. Pilot Turner, the other contestants, judges, timers, umpires were called into huddle. Had Turner cut inside a distant pylon? He readily admitted that he had, to avoid smacking into Wedell. But on his next lap he had circled that pylon twice (as witnesses saw) and still won by more than a mile. Nevertheless, said the judges, pylons are pylons and rules are rules. Prize money, trophy, title were taken from Turner, handed to Wedell...
Rescuers found Amy Mollison sitting in the mud beside the total wreck of the Seafarer, cradling her half-conscious husband's bleeding head in her lap. It took hospital surgeons an hour to stitch the pair's gashes, but they had escaped serious injury. Said he: "I was so tired I couldn't tell where I was putting her." Cried she: "He couldn't see! He couldn...
...records show, no one else has ever succeeded in what she had now accomplished for the third time-getting rattlesnakes to breed in captivity. Curator Wiley never removes the fangs from her rattlers, ascribes her success in handling them to kindness. She likes to have one coiled in her lap "like a contented old cat" while she sews...