Word: lapse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Led at a record-breaking clip by Lee Wallard in his black and gold Belanger Special for the first 100 miles (130.625 m.p.h.), the souped-up speedsters soon began to fall by the wayside. One of the first to make a repair stop (after only five laps) was favored Duke...
Knowing that his colt was bred to stay, and hoping to prove his Derby caliber, Rutchick winter-raced the Count in Florida, where he ran in good company but without much success. As a builder-upper, Rutchick supplemented the colt's hay and oats with a daily quota of...
Dave Gregory stayed behind Al Roberts of the Terriers for seven laps, and moved ahead on the last to win the two-mile run in the slow time of 9:59.6. Dick Fitzgerald of B. U. took the mile as the varsity's Dave Cairns placed third.
A soft-spoken, dark-complexioned, conscientious objector named Igal Roodenko pulled the idea that pacificism is the only alternative to biological suicide, from the ceiling of the Hall of Graduate Studies last night and coolly tossed it into the scattered laps of his small audience. --From the Yale Daily News...
John Steinhart handled the 200-yard backstroke skillfully, setting a pool record in 2:16.3 in a race that threatened to be very close until John pulled away in the last two laps.