Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bulldog was unfortunate in the mile relay when sprinter Bud Talbott, running lead-off man, pulled on the first lap as he was chasing Larry Carbett, and no the Harvard quartet, including Corbett Ellis, McKechnie, and Slingerland ran to a mechanical victory...
Labor said that war profits warranted a wage rise. The dispute was dumped in the lap of the War Labor Board. Lights went down, the orchestra tootled. The board poised in the wings, nervously spitting on its hands. Big Steel watched keenly. So did all employers. This decision would keynote all the hundreds to come...
...almost a blanket finish. Bill Trainor was awarded a second, and Kearie Barry won the event. In the mile, which was won by Don Jordan of Princeton, in the good time of 4:26.7, captain Bob Houghton closed up a gap of 15 to 20 yards in the last lap, to come within inches of nipping Jordan at the tape...
...have formulated their own V-7 program and called it a Candidates' Class. This is a new and even wider channel than the one offered by the Navy, for it includes Sophomores as well as Juniors and Seniors. Like the V-7, it does not guarantee a safe last lap at college. It reserves the right to call students to duty before graduation if the "exigencies of the service" make this necessary, but the Marine Corps is to sign men up with the intention of making good Marine officers out of them after they have had their full college education...
...brethren, let it be known that, from this time henceforth, the lap of John Harvard be considered sacred. Let not the shiny silk of Hayward, Woodworth or Sheridan meet with it, and guard it likewise from the defiling touch of Cambers and his cronies. It is the lap we have fought for, gentlemen--the lap of John. And we have...