Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from the side of their kitchen ranges and their radios. There were truant school-boys looking for a weekly thrill to help let loose their natural energy. In front of me was a very young mother with her shopping bundles and a copy of the Boston Record on her lap, and beside her was what has been rightly called the hope of our country--a squirming baby...
...quiet ceremony, Joseph Armstrong laid the cornerstone of his new building. Into it will go the letters Browning exchanged with Florence Nightingale, Leigh Hunt, Benjamin Jowett. There will be Browning's clock, snuffbox, diary, account books, first editions of all his works, the portfolio he held in his lap when he wrote. Only one of Armstrong's treasures will not be there-Browning's ring, which Joseph Armstrong wears himself and absentmindedly twists when talking...
Four peace-seeking Methodist readers laid a modest proposal in the lap of Colonel Robert R. McCormick's mighty, isolationist Chicago Tribune. Would the Tribune please cooperate, they wrote, in "the creation of a favorable public opinion...
Drew's answer was to throw the whole affair into Howe's lap: the Dominion Government should "now inaugurate its own immigration program." That put it squarely up to Ottawa. It also got Drew off the hook. Ontario's labor shortage is easing up. Moreover, immigrants are squawking at the poor jobs offered and the appalling housing shortage there. Drew's immigration program seemed headed for the scrap heap anyhow. Now he could blame it on Ottawa...
...compare with that of a good man breaststroke swimmer. In New Haven last week, where the men's A.A.U. swimming championships were held, blond Joe Verdeur of La Salle College became a hero for the second week running. He came butterflying and frog-kicking down the final lap of the 220-yard breaststroke race to win. His time of 2:30.5 (compared to Miss Van Vliet's 2:51 at Daytona Beach) was a new U.S. and world 200-meter record...