Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...representative in Washington, relayed them to the State Department, got replies and shot them back to Mr. Skvirsky. The upshot was permission for the Soviet pilot Levanovsky to deliver Mattern to Nome, where Brewer Friedman's rescue plane will be turned over to him for a plucky last lap. Winnie Mae. ''Do be careful," Mrs. Mae Laine Post begged. "O. K.," replied her stocky, swart, one-eyed husband, Wiley. A few minutes later Pilot Post climbed into his big white-&-purple Lockheed monoplane Winnie Mae and roared away from Floyd Bennett Field, N. Y., on his second...
...third quarter Horan moved out front. It proved to be the slowest part of the race, but fast enough to prevent Horan from finishing. Then Bonthron, a bit ahead of Lovelock, took the lead. The event was now between them. In the back stretch of the last lap, Lovelock was running smoothly, holding himself in. Then Bonthron let loose. Lovelock, with less effort, held his own. For five steps on the final turn they ran shoulder to shoulder. And then Lovelock swept out front with a terrific sprint. Bonthron bowed his close-cropped head, futilely pounded his spiked feet...
...thousand spectators were roaring crazily as the Oxonian jogged another lap to cool out. But not without accolade was Bonny Bonthron. Though he had suffered his first collegiate defeat he, too, had broken the previous world's record by .5 sec. and after an hour's rest his brawny, black-haired legs were strong enough for another feat: he ran the half-mile...
...high cost of refrigerated water shipments dropped into the railroads' lap the fat job of carrying the West's oranges to the consuming East. The paraffin process seemed likely to win back for the steamship companies a good share of that business, perhaps even increase consumption by lowering Eastern market prices. Untried but inviting were the new method's possibilities for lemons, limes, grapefruit, cantaloupe...
...talked about in sporting circles around the world. The young New Zealander wearing the Dark Blue of Oxford jogged merrily through a mile race in 4 minutes 12.6 seconds, the fastest time over done in the Stadium or in the Harvard-Yale Oxford-Cambridge meets. He did three grueling laps around the track politely paced by Horan of Cambridge. With the gun for the last lap he went off on a race of his own, and crossed the finish line some hundred yards ahead of his closest competitor. He was not pressed at all during the whole race...