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Word: lane (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Costa Rica $4,600,000 for her section of the two-lane, concrete-curbed Inter-American highway (connecting San José with the Panama border...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Mr. Pierson Pitches Woo | 2/10/1941 | See Source »

King Selfridge was not present to hear these recriminations (largely female). Since he resigned the chairmanship he has lived quietly in a Park Lane flat. He works eight hours a day on his private affairs, continues to write a biography of the 15th-century Florentine Merchant-Trader Cosimo de' Medici. The huge glass window of his former office on Oxford Street, cut with autographs of the great and near-great, has been shattered by a bomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAILING: Selfridge Reorganized | 2/3/1941 | See Source »

Four Mothers (Warner Bros.) momentarily subordinates the maternity marathon of the four luscious Lemp sisters (Rosemary, Priscilla, Lola Lane & Gale Page) to the vicissitudes of their husbands (Eddie Albert, Jeffrey Lynn, Frank McHugh, Dick Foran) and music master father (Claude Rains). Husband Lynn is about to write the great American symphony. Husband Albert is about to discover a germ. But since Husband McHugh has lost all the neighbors' savings when a Florida hurricane hits his real estate, the Lemps spend most of Four Mothers paying back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cinema, Also Showing Feb. 3, 1941 | 2/3/1941 | See Source »

...morning of Sunday, Sept. 2, 1666, in the house of the King's baker in London's Pudding Lane, fire broke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: After the Fire | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

...economizing transportation some units covered hundreds of kilometres afoot. . . . We lacked only a complement of motor vehicles which, as you know, were pouring in from the mainland." "Pouring in" was probably a gross exaggeration, considering the work of the British Fleet, which periodically prowled across the Italian sea lane to Libya...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War, SOUTHERN THEATRE: Bardia & Excuses | 1/6/1941 | See Source »

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