Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meters outdoors, he was expected to be 1943's supermiler. But in last week's mile Dodds lost to an unrecognized challenger: Earl Mitchell, University of Indiana senior.* Trailing Dodds by some ten yards from the halfway mark until the final lap, the Hoosier then licked Dodds by four full yards in the second fastest mile (4:08.6) in 36 Millrose Games. Fastest: Chuck Fenske...
...lap in '29. It was-a-cold, hard, uncompromising lap; that, of course, was because he was a statue. He was ascetic John Harvard. He founded Harvard College...
...knew a fellow who went to Harvard--everybody knows a fellow who went to Harvard. That's how I happened to be sitting on John Harvard's lap, and that's because no one ever really sits on a Harvard man's lap. I found that out some years later when I attended a Harvard CRIMSON dance. Harvard men don't give you time to sit on their laps...
...Last Lap. The next and final stop was Port-au-Spain, capital of hilly, verdant, sun-drenched Trinidad. There the President inspected the new U.S. naval base, had tea with Governor and Lady Bede Edmund Clifford. He also picked up his personal Chief of Staff, Admiral William D. Leahy, forced to stop off at Port-au-Spain on the trip to Casablanca by one of the most untimely cases of influenza in recent history...
...Training. Early last March General Arnold tossed the problem of setting up such a system into the lap of a staff assistant, Colonel Byron E. Gates, promising his complete backing if there were squawks from traditionalists whose toes got stepped on. With the help of a statistics-minded young Texan, Lieut. Colonel Charles Thornton, he set to work. By mid-April the program had been set up, arrangements made with Harvard Business School to train cadets...