Word: lapping
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...first lap, Captain Bob Rittenburg took an early lead which was not threatened until Princeton's heptagonal quarter-mile champion, Joe Meyers, narrowed the Crimson's margin in the last lap...
...anchorman Dave Alpers ran the varsity's fastest quarter, 49.4 seconds, to finish ahead of Meyers. Dick Wharton ran the second lap in 49.7, and Renny Little passed the baton to Alpers after a 50 second quarter...
...race but a test of a car's reliability and a driver's skill. Contestants cover each lap at a designated average speed (well within local speed limits), are penalized for passing checkpoints early or late, also lose points whenever they are forced to make major repairs...
...closest events of the evening were the 200-yard back and breast strokes. Paul Santmire and Bill Hoadley easily won their races, but Ned Benton had to come from behind in the last lap to catch Tech ace Bob Jantzen in the backstroke; and breaststroke John Fowler managed to nip M.I.T.'s Bill Buck at the finish...
...city's crowded bazaar are peddling ballads and poems extolling the virtues of suttee, the accepted name for the widow's sacrifice. In Jodhpur's homes, emotional wives worship before cheap lithographs showing a noble Sugan Kunwar, cradling the head of her dead husband in her lap as flames consume them both...