Word: lane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...treacherous ribbon of curves and grades which you so graphically describe is the old Ridge Route, abandoned these past three years in favor of a three-and four-lane modern high-way which cuts almost straight across the mountains...
From Toad Lane in the Lancashire textile city of Rochdale dates not only the amazing growth of British co-operation but all modern consumer cooperation. There in 1844 amid the energetic jeering of local shopkeepers a little co-operative store was opened with a stock of flour, butter, sugar and oatmeal. The society's ?28 capital had been put in by its 28 members, most of whom were weavers. What these cooperators lacked in capital was more than made up in vision, for within twelve years their society was doing a $100,000 annual business, and the so-called...
...Lane of the Llano is the story of Jim (Lane) Cook as he told it to Professor T. M. Pearce. A white-bearded, sturdy old man, now 77, Jim Cook was born in what is now Kimble County, the son of an Indian trader who became a partner of John Chisum. He pronounced Guadalupe "Warloopy," mixed history, folklore, social theory with his memoirs, all of which was taken down by his audience. Jim was captured by Indians when he was n, grew up with them, married an Indian girl, escaped. He worked as a cowhand, knew Billy the Kid, outsmarted...
...years, 31 people have been killed on the Indianapolis track. This year the roadbed, rough as a country lane, was widened at the turns. The outside retaining wall, through which cars used to pitch, was reinforced. Drivers wondered whether this change, designed to make the race safer, might not, by "kissing" cars back into the path of the field, merely serve to make it more spectacular. Last week's race indicated that the track had actually been improved. Although the pace was 3 m.p.h. faster than last year's, there was only one serious accident. Wooden-legged...
Arthur S. Lane, captain of the 1933 Princeton football team, will be in charge of the Jayvee squad next fall; and Henry Lamar, former Jayvee mentor, has been shifted to the Freshman squad in Dick Harlow's new coaching staff line...