Word: lapping
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...captain John Traugott has always been willing to go the extra mile to win for the Harvard men’s track team. So in Saturday’s 96-48 season-opening win over Boston College, he had no trouble when he was forced to run an extra lap...
...typical 1000-meter race, meet officials ring a bell to indicate the start of the fifth and final lap. But on Saturday, the bell rang at the actual finish, so all the runners—led by Traugott—continued...
...materials in the archives appear to have been written and typed by the members of The Court themselves, not their secretaries. “The handwritten notes look as if someone took scraps of paper, held it on their lap and wrote with a blunt pencil,” Goldstein said. “The letters looked like the Dean himself was typing, not a professional secretary. It was like a person typing who wasn’t used to typing...
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...mind, Libby has been going for the presidency ever since, at two-and-a-half, he sat on his grandmother’s lap and asked her what war was. It’s the first moment he can remember clearly. In answer to his question, Libby’s grandmother told him the story of his great-grandfather’s service in the French army, a service that nearly landed him in a concentration camp. “Ever since, it’s been a mission of mine not to have countries broken apart...