Word: lane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only four are in transit simultaneously about the country. If a tycoon prefers his own car, Pullman will build it for him, as it has done for 226 people and companies in the past, at a cost of $65,000 up. Henry Ford spent $200,000 on his Fair Lane. Last private car built was the Wanderer, for the late Harry Payne Whitney...
...second string men who have been coming very fast during the last few weeks and may succeed in pushing out the experienced pair of Bill Burton and Mike Adlis. Then, at left guard, Frank Schumann is threatening the berth hitherto filled alternately by Bob Brookings and Bill Lane. All three of these up-and-coming substitutes have a very good chance of starting the Yale game...
...clock Coach Haines barked out the starting signal. The boat holding the middle lane, stroked by Meyer, pulled steadily ahead, and held its lead to the finish, winning by a length and a quarter...
...things stand now, it looks as if Schumann will be the starter at guard against the Army with Lane and Brookings close behind him in the list of line men. Everything points to Schumann, for it would be pretty unusual to have a man in the "A" lineup two days before the game and then jerk him at the last minute. Furthermore, there seems little doubt about the backfield. Bilodeau, Ecker, Ford, and Blackwood appear to have the assignments...
Brookings is all right now and has been practicing regularly. Naturally he wants his job back, but Lane is arguing the point with a fair amount of success. In the meantime Schumann, who was just a bit off his game for a while earlier in the year, seems to have solved his difficulties and is right back in form...