Word: lane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Neat Package. A year after it was founded in 1697, under a grant of England's William III, Trinity Church was a little, unsteepled frame building outside the city limits, at the head of a country road named Wall Street and on a lane called the Broad Way. Thus, like many another early New Yorker, Trinity got rich simply by sitting still on a piece of real estate. Trinity's balance sheets would be enough to give the average budget-bullied minister spots before the eyes. Though by 1825 the parish had given away two-thirds...
...players going are Dave Babin, Lawrence Halpern, Evan Spelfogel, Dexter Lewis, Fred Sharf, Gordon Fair, Dick King, John Lane, and Monk Aiello...
...motor speedway running from mountain-girdled Caracas to the sea. The journey to the capital from its seaport, La Guaira, and the neighboring airport Maiquetia, has traditionally been a fatiguing, sometimes hair-raising ride over an insane 18½-mile highway with 311 curves. The $60 million, four-lane autopista is Venezuela's most daring piece of engineering. It sweeps up to the capital in 10½ miles, tunneling mountains and leaping deep chasms on graceful, concrete-arch bridges (one of them 1,000 ft. long). The superhighway has cut travel time from 90 minutes to around...
...mother, who sells oranges at the Drury Lane Theater, is not entirely pleased. "Why will you give such way to your Passion?" she chides. "When I advised you not to be guilty of Folly, I meant no more than that you should take care to be well paid beforehand, and not trust to Promises, which a man seldom keeps, after he hath had his wicked Will. And seeing you have a rich Fool to deal with, your not making a good Market will be the more inexcusable...
British film drumbeaters meanwhile came forth with "England's bewitching answer to Marilyn Monroe": 23-year-old Mara Lane, a movie bit-player, who, so far, has not been accused by anyone of causing the Conservative victory in Britain's last elections, but who seems likely to command attention in other respects...