Word: lane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...minutes or so it was like old times in London's Stepney. Homes along Brunton's Place, Raby Street and Salmon Lane were evacuated, buses were stopped. Sick animals from the People's Dispensary had been moved to a safer place, and in the old air-raid shelter near the Church of Our Lady Immaculate, the neighbors were gathered once more waiting in awful suspense for the detonation of a German bomb. Just as they hoped, the big bang never came. In an operation as delicate as brain surgery, London's No. 2 Bomb Disposal Squad...
...Biggest Zaret & Singer success was their modernization of Harvard Professor George Martin Lane's The Lone Fish Ball (1855) into 1945's hit One Meat Ball...
...farmhouse near Tampa, Fla., and told a story which is as old as the South. A 34-year-old white man named Irving F. Brown had called on her, asked her to come to his house as a baby sitter. Instead, he drove her to a lonely lane, beat and attempted to rape...
...observant was Sam Welles's Profile of Europe. In down-to-earth pictures of daily living, he showed that Russian Communism is still a burden borne on the patient backs of the overworked and undernourished Russian people. In I Saw Poland Betrayed, onetime U.S. Ambassador Arthur Bliss Lane wrote a blunt, forceful account of the means by which the Kremlin (with little resistance from the U.S. Government) took over the Polish state. Political pundits had a sure-fire topic in Russia v. the Western democracies. Most crisp and provocative of a spate of books on the subject was bright...
...until all children have been met--Playground of the Harvard-way Extension, Jarvis Court Bulletin Board, and Shaler Lane...