Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Yamanashi Prefecture, 70 mi. from Tokyo. Musical instrument dealers bought bowls of sacred rice, hoped business would be better. Foreigners inspected the statue with interest. They saw a heroic bronze figure in the robes of a Buddhist priest but with the head of a large shaggy dog. In his lap rested a Buddhist nun with the head of a cat. Balanced precariously on top of the dog-headed priest was a little figure of Buddha, blessing the pair...
...yard run were J. E. Rogerson '34, Avery Sawyer '34, second, and R. F. Estes '34, third. After a series of elimination heats, J. J. Hayes, Jr. '34, and D. B. Cheek '34, came in first and second, in the 35-yard high-hurdles. Three one-lap relay races were held, in which the following were the victorious teams: R. B. Ford '34, and B. H. Englander '34; H. B. Brown '34, F. P. Cahill '34, I. W. Rabinowitz, and H. S. Sise '34; W. H. Hatch '34, J. J. Hayes, Jr. '34, G. M. Williams...
...track season of 1930 to a close, has been provided as an incentive to the track-work of the past two or three weeks. It has been planned to consist of four events: the 35-yard dash, the 35-yard high-hurdles, a SSO-yard race, and a one-lap relay race. At the same time, in the Old Cage, the final event of the University Fall Handicap meet will be played off. It will be the 35 pound hammer-throwing contest, which was indefinitely postponed last autumn on account of lack of the necessary equipment...
...solid bronze are used. . . . Metal tire covers are prominent. . . . Radically modern for Brewster was a Rolls-Royce body with everything, including doors, slanting sharply backward. This Rolls-Royce cost $21,750, was the most expensive car. Next was an $18,600 Isotta. . . . Adjustable "Pullman" seats were in evidence. . . . Rugs, lap robes and pillows (some of lambskin) blended with upholstery. . . . Some sport phaetons have a duplicate dashboard for rear-seat riders. . . . Exhibitors were hopeful Hollywood cinemastars will approve of the lavishness of the models, to be displayed in Los Angeles the first week in February, the Salon's next stop...
...crinkly hair pushed out above his handlebars. The crowds, always emphatically Italian in Manhattan, cheered Linari & Binda, billed as an imported road team, but they yelled loudest for their favorites, Franco Georgetti and Paul Brocardo. When the last hour began, Brocardo & Georgetti were riding desperately to keep a one-lap lead over two young Belgians, Adolph Charlier and Roger De Nef. Strong, ambitious, daring, Charlier & De Nef were in every jam, always dangerous, took three times as many points for sprints as anyone else. But in that last hour of a race in which there had been many accidents...