Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lap: R. D. Howard ocC, L. M. Harris '24, L. E. Bunker '25, and J. H. Broome...
...races for both University and Freshmen will be with four men to a team. No man is allowed to run in more than one race. The first event will be a race in which each man runs one lap, the second will be a race of six laps for each man, the third of three and the fourth of nine each. The fifth event is a medley race in which the first man runs one lap, the second runs six, the third, three, and the fourth, nine...
...pedalling 2,519 miles and 8 laps in six days, Percy Lawrence of San Francisco and Ernest Kockler, Chicago milk man, won a Six-Day Bike Race at Madison Square Garden. They were one lap ahead of the field. Reggie McNamara and Pete Van Kempen were second by virtue of 1,174 points gained in daily sprints throughout the week. Maurice Brocco, tiny Franco-Italian rider, twice had victory in his grasp in the closing hour of the struggle only to have his giant partner from Holland, Peter Moeskops, ease up and lose the winning lap...
...constructive drenching, the laugh was shed gently from the oilcloth shoulders of the proletariat onto the sogginess of mackintosh and rubber-silk rainster. It is not hard to predict that another such a day will see the covering of mother's kitchen table going at a premium and linoleum lap-robes across the knees of the elite...
...failed to keep prices of coal within the bounds of reason. And therein the Commission has found the catch. While in every crisis consumers have blamed the retailers, retailers have blamed the railroads, and everyone has blamed the miners, who of course must have been perched in Luxury's lap, wholesaler after wholesaler was pocketing his "bit" on the same ton of coal. In their "banner year", indeed, of 1920 each wholesaler who did not handle shipments himself and therefore was merely speculating made an average profit of 15 cents per ton--a return of about fifty-five per cent...