Word: lapse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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"Bismarck? Bismarck?" The interrogator shouted with excitement, and rushed to a phone to tell his superiors what a fancy bird had dropped into their laps. From that moment von Einsiedel got the best of care-Russian style. In the next two days he was beaten up only once (with a...
In the 440-yard freestyle, Egan also came up fast in the closing laps, but he couldn't overtake team-mate Dick Fouquet, who won in 5:09 minutes.
-Glenn Cunningham, who won the Wanamaker six times (never bettering 4:11), ran a specially paced 4:04.4 mile on the oversize (6⅔ laps to the mile) Dartmouth track, since dismantled.
In the final test he had to beat only Los Angeles' super-streamlined Hurricane IV, whose engine had not been started in time to begin the second heat. As the two boats churned around the course, Hurricane IV's engine balked again and quit. In the face of...
* The first time in boat-racing history that two boats (the other Hurricane IV) averaged more than 100 m.p.h. over five laps of a standard course.