Word: lane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...even for an instant, then dropped back. Killer Cassedy had not raised his beat but the Harvard boat, with a splendid run between strikes, pulled out ahead, a quarter length at the mile, a full length at two miles, three lengths and a quarter at the finish in a lane of yachts whose whistles saluted the winner before either boat had crossed the line...
...York City; Harold Gershinowitz, Brooklyn, N. Y.; J. A. Gutherie, Madison, Wis.; Leo A. T. Haak, Cambridge, Mass.; J. W. Havighurst, Jacksonville, Ill.; R. D. Humphrey, St. John, N. B., Canada; J. E. Johnson, Whitford, Pa.; K. B. Krishna Madras, India; C. G. Lalicker, Norman, Okla.; H. H. Lane, Barre, Vermont; Bernard Lemann, New Orleans, La.; D. W. Meiklejohn, Madison, Wis.; Brooks Otis Richmond, Indiana; D. H. Popper, White Plains, N. Y.; H. A. Smith, North Adams, Mass.; C. W. Swonger, Durham, N. H.; F. B. Williams, Jr., Middletown N. Y.; Jacob Canter, Newton, Mass.; V. I. Cheadle, Oxford, Ohio...
...efficient. He stayed in the bunch behind the leaders while first Cockpen, then Lord Derby's Portofino. then Dastur took the lead. With a furlong and a half to go, Dastur was still ahead with Miracle running second and April the Fifth third. In black & pink, Jockey Fred Lane on the Walls horse and Jockey Wragg, riding Miracle, challenged at the same time. For an instant, the three horses were running head to head in an utter silence that had fallen when the crowd saw that Orwell had been left behind in the straightaway. April the Fifth crossed...
Club for the expressed purpose of determining the best air route across the Atlantic. But spade-bearded General Italo Balbo, promoter of the conference, was not really looking for information. He was well satisfied with the lane from West Africa to Brazil across which he had led a squadron of ten seaplanes last year. General Balbo had something else on his mind: a proposal that all nations open their airports to international commercial traffic as seaports admit ships of all flags. The delegates were without authority but could direct sentiment...
...hours later comes in TIME (April 25) your report of a daughter born to Baron Raucci and Margaret Lane. I admit my error: but I would like enlightenment on the causes of midgetism...