Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With President Hoover on the last lap of his re-election campaign, Mr. Castle expressed confidence that somehow or other the Herriot plan will "fit into" the Hoover plan for one-third reduction of the world's armed forces...
Since the House football season closes with a game against the winning Yale Class team on Friday, November 4, the 150-pound season will not lap over the House games more than a week and a half. The chief reasons for the discontinuance of the 150-pound team last spring were that it might harm the turnout for house football and that there were not enough teams of its own weight and calibre for it to play in this vicinity...
Jean Jacques, who used to lie dreaming in a tiny skiff, lulled by the lap of the waves and comforted by the steady, reliable warmth of the sun, is the patron saint of an agnostic Vagabond. For the Vagabond, too, would pass many a quiet hour soothed by the opiate of day dreams, as did romantic Rousseau, but he is condemned to live in a climate too harsh, and an age to unkind. Therefore, he consoles himself by patient procrastination, by doing the things he ought not do, and by leaving undone the things he ought...
...Phar Lap was not stuffed. Jonas Brothers, New York taxidermists, used his skeleton as the armature for a sculptured clay model. From this they made a mold. Like a sculptor who transfers his clay model to bronze, they transferred theirs to a specially treated paper, hollow and light but strong. On this the skin was stretched after chemical treatment to insure the permanence of its lustre. Many a wild beast has been mounted in this manner, but Phar Lap was the first horse. Sysonby, great racehorse of 25 years ago, was stuffed, is now in Manhattan's American Museum...
...Phar Lap, a 7-year-old gelding, could not have run in this year's Futurity, which is for 2-year-old colts & fillies. At 2, Phar Lap was sold...