Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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However numerically inconsequential the result, the 400-yard relay provided a bitter battle and a close finish, as Yale's Clement took command on the last lap over the Varsity's flagged Bullard...
...ever since she had fallen and broken her hip three weeks ago (TIME, Feb. 24). He had hurried to her bungalow in Grandview, Mo. immediately after the accident, had telephoned every day after he got back to Washington. Last week, flying west in the Sacred Cow on the first lap of his trip to Mexico City (see above'), he was about to see her again, but he still seemed vaguely restless. As the morning wore on he picked up the radio telephone in the plane, called her house, talked over the drone of engines to his sister, Mary Jane...
Defense. His decision to dump the problem into the lap of the United Nations (TIME, Feb. 24) was not the only measure of the failure. He would propose no solution to the U.N. He had no new policy to offer for peace in Palestine pending the U.N.'s action (it will not take the case until September; a decision may be more than a year away). And he would make no promise of an increase in Jewish immigration to the Holy Land (now 1,500 a month), the sorest point of all with Zionists...
With breast stroker Chuck Hoelzer definitely in the runner up spot in the last lap of the 200-yard breast stroke, all eyes were on Walt Lagarenne, battling successfully for third against the dogged Hawley...
Gurley, who had previously won the mile, applied the coup de grace by bolting past the Eli anchorman on the back-stretch of the final lap, as spectators, officials and competitors surged onto the cinder track. If Yale had won this event...