Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...down temperamental pilots, settling quarrels, salving wounded vanity. As familiar to race followers as the pylon in front of the grandstand is "Pop's" ungainly figure striding across the field with his colored starting flags tucked under one arm?red for "all clear," white for "go," checkered for "last lap." Usually he has a cigar in the side of his mouth, always he wears a ten-gallon hat, even when he flies, which he does with grandmotherly caution...
...Save the King." Second to Hampson by a foot was Alexander Wilson of Canada, who had raced him stride for s tride over the last 100 yd. Third was Phil Edwards, Canadian Negro who used to run for New York University. Edwards had set the pace for the first lap, held on to save third place by 2 yd. from U. S. Champion Eddie Genung...
...flags of winning countries up the highest of the three flagpoles on the stadium's peristyle was pleased by the final of the 1,500-metre race. From where he stood, watching the tiny runners crawl around the track, a bunched field thinning out on the last lap while one dark little man sprinted furiously to get in front,it was impossible to see who had won; but after the race was over, the employe received, for the first time, the signal to hoist the Italian flag to the top of his pole. As the flag went up, the employe...
...election may be bad luck if the outgoing government happens to be shoving into the lap of the new Premier a huge budgetary deficit. Four years ago Rumania's National Peasant Party won an election under such conditions, restored comparative financial order and was later ousted by King Carol and wastrel politicians who squandered what the Peasant Government had saved...
Venzke had a field of eight to beat in the final. He let Henry Brocksmith of In diana hold the lead till the back stretch of the last lap before he sprinted to pass him. What happened then made it the most amazing race of the meet. When Venzke took the lead, Norwood Penrose Hallowell, a Harvard miler who was beaten in the intercollegiate meet, sprinted to over take him. Venzke matched Hallowell's pace for 20 strides then dropped. Two more collegians, Frank Crowley of Manhattan College and Glenn Cunningham of Kansas, closed in and passed Venzke...