Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...snow. When Irving Jaffee of New York won, after outmaneuvering the Norwegian champion Ivar Ballangrud, the U. S. team had 29 points, more than its total in the Winter Olympic games of 1924. Next day, Shea won the 1,500-meter race, spurting at the start of the last lap to beat Alex Hurd of Canada. After a protest against U. S. speed-skating rules by Japanese, Norwegians, Finns and Swedes, and counter protests by U. S. skaters when they were compelled to recon-test preliminary heats, Irving Jaffee won the 10,000-meter race. Young Emile St. Goddard...
...Cromwell) who is killed while flying to the trial in which the old nurse is acquitted. She gives her traducers the money she has inherited and is last seen as a menial again, in service with another family, the smallest member of which has just misbehaved himself on her lap...
...appearance he is small, lean and wiry. His thin face is tanned a reddish brown. His stubbly brown hair he wears cut short and upright. His clothes are expensively conservative. On the floor he usually sits erect and silent, hands folded attentively in his lap. On the rare occasions when he does speak, he asks in advance not to be interrupted and then begins to read: "The Navy is the first line of defense. . . .'' No orator, his voice lacks resonance and pitch. When drawn into rough-&-tumble debate on the Navy, he becomes fussed and nervous...
Berthed for $5,000 aboard the S. S. Monwai from New Zealand, Phar Lap (Senegalese for "Wink of the Sky"), the "red terror" of the Australian turf, arrived last week in San Francisco. A long-limbed chestnut gelding, Phar Lap (son of Night Raid, English horse, and out of Entreaty, New Zealand mare) has won 32 out of 42 races and $267,675 prize money in Australia. He was taken to Heather Stock Farm near San Francisco for conditioning before being sent to Agua Caliente to race in the $50,000 handicap there in March...
...course, attracted most attention. Erased from the President's face were lines of strain and worry. Painter de Laszlo showed him in majestic mood, narrowed slightly by a be coming shadow, equipped with the dignity which Presidents so frequently require. His hands were white and soft upon his lap. On Mrs. Hoover's kind face matronly warmth was mingled with, but did not in fringe upon, a hauteur fitting for her station. Other faces on the walls ? solemn Andrew William Mellon, wise Elihu Root, martial John Joseph Pershing, temperate Frank Billings Kellogg?made it apparent that the distinction...