Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...finger-shaped Lake Garda on the Lombardy border one day last week Lieut. Neri climbed into his seaplane, flashed around & around the measured course. Electric timing cameras caught him at 430 m.p.h. as he entered his last lap. Then, with an official world record within a few miles of his grasp, Lieut. Nerfs plane shot askew of its course. One of the flippers had been wrenched from its tail. "Death Cheat" Neri kept his ship in control, landed safely...
...Headed Woman (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is adapted from Katherine Brush's best seller. The picture is a quick, caustic biography of an alert, successful strumpet. From her stenographer's desk in the Legendre Coal Company, Lil (Jean Harlow) quickly finds her way into the lap of Bill Legendre (Chester Morris), from there to the Legendre living room where Mrs. Legendre discovers her. Presently, there occurs a scene in a roadhouse telephone-booth which contains both Bill & Lil. Lil says: "You can't get along without me," and proves she is right by marrying Bill when his first...
...virtually ceased freight operations eastward over the line, the militia was called out. Ugliness and perhaps bloodshed were avoided by East St. Louis merchants and ex-service men who provided 200 Ib. of sausage meat and free truck transportation to Washington, Ind., thus shifting an unpleasant situation into the lap of a neighbor State...
...fast Millers, led by Billy Arnold, 1930 winner, 1931 leader until his Miller-Hartz crashed and burnt, led for the first laps. Arnold crashed again at 150 mi. after setting five new records. At 200 mi. only one of the standard cars, high rated for stamina, was among the first ten. In the last half they came up, finished third (Studebaker), fifth (Hupmobile) and sixth (Studebaker). But already down Indianapolis' 2½ mile-long brick oval, in the dust, heat, bedlam and gasoline fumes, a businesslike little car, fat in the middle, had buzzed busily past the finish line...
Henry Brocksmith of Indiana won the two-mile run in 9:13.6, a new intercollegiate record by 4.2 sec. Then, as anchor man on the team, he helped Indiana win the four-mile relay, losing the field in the last lap...