Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...after an investment of $850,000 in research, Hattori's men unveiled 1,300 ingenious Olympic time devices. They ranged from nine varieties of split-second stop watches to an electronic judge of swimming events that: 1) clocks swimmers to 1/1,000th of a second; 2) memorizes individual lap times of up to nine swimmers at a time; and 3) prints all scores on a sheet of paper the instant the race is over, thus eliminating time-consuming human calculation...
Mills sped by Mohamed Gamoudi of Tunisia and Ron Clarke of Australia on the last lap to win in the Olympicrecord time...
...Doty Committee emphasized when it set up the Science-Humanities division, this is not by any means an irrevocable epistemological partition. Although we view the above division as a basic one that should be made to structure the program, we of course realize there are large areas of over-lap--especially between Behavioral Science and Historical Studies and between Historical Studies and Humanities--which in our opinion may best be dealt with in upper level Gen Ed courses...
...place at the top. As executive editor-a new Atlantic title-Manning will "reinforce" rather than replace the magazine's editorial helmsman. "It will be a sharing for the immediate years," said Weeks, at least "as far as one can see." After that, "what comes is in the lap of the gods...
...mother, unless she is drastically unqualified. He proposed that a psychiatrist called in to testify for Dr. Murphy examine Malinda. Reporters caught a glimpse of mother and child as Happy arrived at the psychiatrist's office from the Rockefeller estate in Pocantico Hills holding Malinda in her lap...