Word: lane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Robert E. Lane...
Slickly engineered, with a minimum of turns and steep grades, the twin three-lane strips of the Autobahnen are separated by a hedged and grassed parkway 16 feet wide, which keeps traffic separated and cuts down headlight glare. Service stations, hotels, repair shops and rest stations are spaced along the highway with Teutonic regularity (26 miles between filling stations) and at even intervals there is a blackboard to call motorists to the phone for messages from home or summonses to emergency military duty...
Charles L. Burwell, Edward L. Cherbonnier, J. Donald Enterline, and Robert E. Lane were the seniors nominated for the Class Marshal post. The additional name put up for Class Treasurer was Forest W. Stearns...
Curwen managed to win the century in the surprisingly slow time of 56 flat, while Vergeichik and Harvard' Powers almost swam a dead heat for second, the Lion natator getting the decision. The explanation of Curwen's slow time is that his arm was caught around a lane-marker. Bosworth's 1:43.3 in the 150-yard dorsal event was fast in view of his dubious health, Tom Finnerty barely came in ahead of Craig Moore for second...
Young Robert Lane Anderson, who took over the Marion, Va. Democrat (circ. 1,400) and the Republican Smyth County News (circ. 1,600, both printed in the same plant) from his father, Novelist Sherwood Anderson, in 1932. An able graduate of several big city newsrooms, Publisher Anderson repeatedly urges his cattle-raising readers to go in for purebred stock and baits the power company for lower electric rates. He has lately installed a one-man photographic and engraving department that feeds his papers shots of local rabbit hunters, sorority initiations, farmers' wives in town to buy perfume. Best-played...