Word: lane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...steadfastly refused to see that nothing could solve the traffic evil but the fast-multiplying automobile itself. The problem would end for good on the day of the last traffic jam-at that shrieking moment when every highway, street, road and lane in the nation was so clogged with cars that none could ever move again. Only then would man be free of the monster. But would he accept his freedom? It seemed doubtful. It would be too easy to lay boards across the tops of a billion sedans and start all over again with jet propulsion, foam rubber wheels...
...Charming Cats. Newspapers called him "The Worst Man in the World." They told fantastic stories of him: he could raise devils and dead cats; he drank blood; he celebrated the obscene Black Mass in his "temple" at Chancery Lane. Crowley added some stories of his own. He said he could make himself invisible, and claimed to have walked around a town once in a red robe and golden crown, unnoticed by anyone. In a treatise on magic he blandly remarked that "for nearly all purposes, human sacrifice is best." In 1934 he sued Authoress Nina Hamnett for libel, claiming that...
...coach praised the recent play of Lane McGovern, "the most improved player on the team," as well as that of the others, including the three Foster brothers, Adam, Henry, and Hugh...
Adam Foster, Bill Wightman, Lane McGovern, Milt Reath, Henry Foster, Hugh Foster, Phil Emerson, and Stove Mead accounted for the Crimson markers, while stahi picked up the visitors' only point...
...back, and feels he has cause for optimism, Captain Adam Foster returns to grace the number one spot, while right behind him are Bill Wightman and George Stevens, playing two and three respectively. Other veterans with a year's Varsity experience behind them are such dependables as Scotty Stewart, Lane McGovern, Milt Heath, and Jim McKittrick, while Foster's brothers Hugh and Henry have both joined him as sure starters. The former was number one on the Freshmen last year, while the latter is a returning veteran...