Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...passed by Dean of Penn, left Hallowell ten yards behind McNiff; the star miler closed the gap to a stride with a sprint over the last furlong. Cobb, only a stride behind Penn's veteran miler the entire distance, ceded second place to Martin of Cornell on the last lap. Sutermeister, in the vault, seemed unable to command his usual power...
...Remember, you are the trapeze performers of the organization. On one side is the fat lady's lap, on the other side is a cage of man-eating lions and there is no net to catch you if you fall...
After a year, however, the Scripps-Howard "Fat Lady" took the El Paso Post into her ample lap. And last week the dominant El Paso Post absorbed its evening competitor, the Herald, becoming the Herald-Post...
...Chicago, August Eichenberg sat on a sidewalk, his body distorted, his head drooping, his hat in his lap. Sympathetic passersby tossed him coins. Then a woman looked at his face, fainted. No beggar, August Eichenberg was a corpse, had dropped dead on his way home from work...
...ugly brick house on Fifth Avenue and 39th Street, Manhattan, Miss Ella Virginia von Echtzel Wendel had died (TIME, March 30 et ante) and dropped into the lap of Charity what the serious Press insisted upon calling a $75,000,000 to $100,000,000 fortune. Of that it seemed, at first glance, that Nanking Theological Seminary and four other institutions! were each to get 17 1/2%. And the famed Moody-founded Northneld schools of East Northfield, Mass., were to get 11½% which looked like $1,000,000?ample to complete its current endowment campaign...