Word: lapse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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¶ Herbert Mendelson's Notre Dame, with her Designer-Builder Clell Perry at the wheel: the Gold Cup, oldest U. S. Speed boat trophy; at the Detroit Yacht Club; with an average speed of 63,675 m. p. h. for three 30-mi. laps-a Gold Cup record.*
China and Spain have jockeyed for preferred position on the world's front pages for nearly a month, and up to last week China has had the upper hand. The Chinese war was a new upheaval; it burst squarely in the correspondents' laps; there was virtually no censorship...
In each of four dusky projection rooms at 1600 Broadway last week, a small group of schoolteachers, pencils poised over marking blanks in their laps, sat watching the antics of Mickey Mouse, an erupting volcano, travelogs, Bobby Jones measuring a fairway. Part of an ambitious project that has been going...
Favorite was blond Bernd Rosemeyer of Germany who last year won seven out of eight Grand Prix races in Europe, easily outclassed Italy's Tazio Nuvolari, the 1936 Vanderbilt Cup winner. Rosemeyer got away fast at the start this week, temporarily yielded his lead to his countryman Rudolf Caracciola...
Running a two-mile race as a program filler at last year's Princeton Invitation Track Meet, barrel-chested Donald Ray Lash of the University of Indiana proceeded to dash the eight laps in the fastest time ever recorded for the distance outdoors. This year Princeton, hoping for another...