Word: lapse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bob Mello picked up another tie for third in the pole vault but still was unable to go any higher than 13 feet. Both Bob Twitchell and freshman Bob Rittenberg qualified for the finals of the hurdles. Twitchell, however, was left at the start, while Rittenberg had to settle for...
At that point, many Americans were caught up in the great muscle-flexing passion of Manifest Destiny. They heard Indiana's Senator Albert J. Beveridge cry: '''God did not make the American people the mightiest' human force of all time simply to feed and die...
In the western world, medicine is giving disease a run for its money. In the East, disease is still laps and laps ahead.
What the audience was seeing was Cinerama, the 13-year-old brainchild of Inventor Fred Waller of Huntington, N.Y. A new variation on the old theme of three-dimensional movies, Cinerama does not reproduce such old tricks as the baseball thrown straight into the spectators' laps; rather, it seems...
From there to the finish it was all Wallard and his Belanger Special, but not without some troubles. He drove the last 50 miles virtually without brakes, lost a shock absorber with twelve laps to go. But by the time he got the black & white mish flag, 40-year-old...