Word: lapse
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
By the fifth lap of the gruelling 440-yard distance, however, both Jerry German and Forbes Norris of the Crimson were the masters of the race, and then the meet, hitting the floats 12 laps later first and second. And with a comfortable 24 points to relax with, Coach Ulen...
Yale pool record set the same night for the 440-yard freestyle, however, is small cause for Crimson worry. Against Army's Norris and Rowell, the Varsity's Jerry German clipped 7.1 seconds off the new Yale mark in going the same 17 and a half laps.
Last week the awkward, stubby, soft-spoken fellow whom sportswriters had incongruously named "The Killer" lined up against five others in Boston Garden, his spectacles firmly secured. For the first two laps Dodds lagged behind; then he spurted. As always, he ran by the clock, not by the competition-the...
For television, it was a historic week. At the opening of the 80th Congress, the House of Representatives was televised for the first time. During interminable roll calls, television's great eye strayed about the House-catching children sitting still as Capitol mice on Representatives' laps, investigating the...
Mammon was still several laps ahead: during 1945 the U.S. spent $7,800,000,000 for alcoholic drinks, $3,000,000,000 for tobacco.