Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...38th annual 500-mile Indianapolis Motor Speedway race. Grinding for more than 3½ hours around the fume-fouled track, Vukovich maintained an average speed of 130.84 m.p.h., fastest time in speedway history. His nearest competitor: Jimmy Bryan, driving a Dean Van Lines Special, who finished one lap behind...
...beat World Record Holder Fortune Gordien with a toss of 184 ft. 1½ in. Only two men have tossed the discus farther: Gordien and Olympic Record Holder Sim Iness. ¶At Indianapolis, qualifying for the Memorial Day 500-miler, Jack McGrath set a new record for the four-lap (ten miles) sprint of 141.033 m.p.h. Old (1952) record: 139.034 m.p.h., set by the late Chet Miller. ¶ In Moscow, World Champion Chess Player Mikhail Botvinnik, 43, retained his title after a long (24 games) match with Challenger Vassily Smyslov...
Benton College nestles in rolling foothills, but in its own eyes, it sits in the lap of the enlightened future. Its faculty feels that "if Benton were gone it would no longer be possible to become educated . . . If Benton had had an administration building with pillars it could have carved over the pillars: Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you feel guilty. Just as ordinary animal awareness has been replaced in man by consciousness, so consciousness had been replaced [at] Benton by social consciousness...
...real church people don't have that terrible, austere fear of God. They feel like they're sitting on their Father's lap; to some he's 'Dad,' to others he's 'Father.' But it's a warm, friendly, loving feeling...
...began the last lap of his 178-mile, eight-day hike down the old Chesapeake & Ohio Canal last week, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas wore the air of a missionary savoring a particularly satisfying conversion of the heathen tribes. Some of his 37 original companions (TIME, March 29) had dropped out (only eight walked the whole way with Douglas), and a good many more were physically reduced by blisters, swollen ankles and aching muscles. But along the way, even the Washington Post's Editorial Writers Merlo Pusey (who walked 140 miles) and Robert Estabrook (150 miles) had become...