Word: lane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fred Lane of the American: "Harvard of course, 21 to 7. Look at the Crimson showing since the first of November. While the backfield is a toss-up, the Crimson line is sixty per cent better. The whole team is stronger and smarter...
...Cruiser Squadron and the U. S. Navy's destroyers based in World War I. But it is 200 miles farther, out & back, and in wartime at sea every 100 miles counts. The distances from Berehaven and Cobh (Queenstown) in Eire to the southern trade lane (approach to Cardiff and Bristol as well as to Liverpool) are even more disparate when laid against the extra miles the R. N. must plow from Portland, Devonport or even Pembroke...
With Richard Lane '41 as chairman, the Harvard speakers will be John W. Sullivan '43 and Thomas Carroll '42. The debate will be broadcast over Station WAAB at 3 o'clock...
...whisked over the eight miles of the Albany Post Road, past the Hudson, grey-blue through the autumn leaves, past filling stations, hot-dog stands, fat-looking farms, to the grey-blue fieldstone walls of the ancestral Roosevelt acres, through trooper-guarded iron gates, and up the half-mile lane of maple trees...
...Founder Lane started National Contesters' Association to promote good will among the addicts of a pastime that offered in 1939 a potential take of $54,000,000. A general storekeeper from Mine Run, Va., he made his first killing in 1935, when in the course of three weeks he won 150 pounds of chicken feed. Encouraged, he went into contesting seriously, soon collected a booty of bicycles, roller skates, shaving brushes, Indian suits, automobiles, cash. Described as a non-profit association, National Contesters charges members $1 a year in dues, keeps them posted about what goes...