Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Conferences. Britain's dilemma was currently in the lap of Colonial Minister Arthur Creech Jones, who last week held two important conferences in London. The first was with David Ben-Gurion, chairman of the Jewish Agency Executive, who came to outline the grounds on which Jews would join the London Conference on Palestine Jan. 21. Ben-Gurion left the interview apparently well pleased with what he had been told...
Despite a successful Brown push in the 400 yard relay for the often crucial seven points, the lap margin still wasn't good enough to make up a gap that would have needed more than a doubling of the Bruins' points...
...body had landed in the lap of a lady two tables away, so Charnay looked her up too. She was one Marion Grimes Langford, prominent widow (of a 1945 murder victim...
While the soggy yet undismayed Aquacade hopefuls piled up lap after lap, such un-ladylike comments as "damn" and "Oh Harvard" reverbated around the crowded pool...
Taking to the boards first for the Crimson was the one-mile relay quartet consisting of Jim Wheeler, A1 Ruby, Dave Hamblett and Wes Flint, running in that order. Behind in the first quarter-lap, wheeler passed the Rhode Island lead-off man on the first turn and Mikkola's baton carriers were never trailing again. Ending the third leg, Rhode Island's Cashman spurted to within a few yards of Hamblett, but a burst of speed by Flint put the race on ice, with a time...