Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deeds instead of words. Their evidence: Constantly Mr. Roosevelt appeases the Democratic conservatives, consistently he calls to heel the business-baiting Janizariat. To keep party harmony, he plans no reform legislation at Session III of the 76th Congress, will actively support none. He has dumped taxes in the Congressional lap; almost daily pinches budget appropriations for New Deal agencies, slashes down works, relief, spending ideas. His hope: a short, sweet session that will end in a burst of party harmony...
Have you ever seen a runner in the last lap, racing for the tape? Doesn't look very happy, does he? And he probably isn't able to think of much else besides getting to the finish. This analogy fits the "stiff" dance band exactly. Guys who play in them are so busy trying to drive ahead and stay ahead of the beat that their ideas become stereotyped, and cold. They can't think of anything decent because in back of them all this time, there is this terrific push that doesn't let them phrase, or even pause...
...promises to be the most hotly contested event of the evening. Charlie Hutter and George Scott '34 will meet Art Bosworth and Dave Stearns in the two-lap sprint. Scott who has been improving ever since he left college, and who beat Hutter last year, has been fast in practice time trials. Although he may well thrash out another win, all four men should finish within a half-second...
...backstroke. The latter may be booed as a "ringer" but no one will deny that he is an alumnus, the Alumni leaders have asserted. Darle Berizzi '38, ebullient breastroker who has a physique like a tree trunk and Jameson will butterfly against Waldron and Max Kraus in a four-lap event...
...when the time came to toe the mark, the Alumni found, alas, that they did not have in their number four men capable of swimming two tortuous laps, Accordingly, so that no alumnus would return to his wife or graduate school or employer too fatigued for his own good, the Alumni fielded a relay team of eight men, each of whom swam a Tollicking one-lap race. Several divers and a breast stroker seem to have found their way into the line-up. Ulen's boys won the event, nevertheless, and in record time. but of course no record...