Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lewis Ovington was sworn in as ''air mail pilot number one." He climbed into his Blériot monoplane Dragonfly, received a sack of mail from Postmaster-General Frank Harris Hitchcock, flew six miles to Mineola and dumped the sack (which he had been holding on his lap) at the feet of Postmaster William McCarthy. Seven years elapsed before regular airmail service was attempted in the U. S. with an experimental route between New York and Washington. But sentimentalists of aviation like to think of Earle Ovington's flight as the real beginning of U. S. airmail...
...down to about 150 ft., he flashed six times back & forth over a straight- away of about 1.8 mi. The crowds saw only a speck with a tail of smoke. When it was over the stopwatches showed an average of 379.05 m. p. h. On one lap Lieut. Stainforth's time had been 388.6, faster than man had ever flown, more than eight times faster than the winner of the first Schneider race...
...Miss America VIII; at Detroit. In the second heat, watched by a crowd of 500,000 and won by George Wood, both Kaye Don and Gar Wood were disqualified for crossing the line more than five seconds before the starting gun. Miss England II, wrecked on the first lap, broke in half and sank. The last heat was cancelled...
Incidental note: Dean A. L. Stone, head of the school of journalism at Montana's University, once stated that the best story he ever wrote was one he concocted while on the Standard staff. A spectacular railroad wreck had, so to speak, fallen in Stone's lap. The only newsman in miles, he strung thousands of words together while the blazing cars of the unlucky train made the night lurid in Hellgate canyon near Missoula. He filed the yarn on the wire. Discovered next day that the Standard office had burned to the ground...
Swimmers. Everyone expected Eleanor Holm to win the 300-yd. medley race. Her specialty is the back stroke used on the middle lap, after a 100-yd. breast stroke start and before the 100-yd. crawl at the finish. Instead, wiry little Katherine Rawls wiggled to a 5-yd. lead in the first lap, held it through the second, crawled farther ahead in the last lap and won in 4:45⅛ four seconds faster than the previous Holm world's record. Next day Minnow Rawls won the 220-yd. breast stroke championship with a new U. S. record...