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Word: lane (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Welterweights Phil Burnaman and Johnny Cole are both from Oklahoma. Burnaman had a fine record as a Tulsa High School performer and seems to have a firm hold on his 137 pound position. But Cole finds John Lane and Hank Brawle giving him a spirited fight for his post of 147. Any one of the three may be the top man by the season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Mister Zero's' Yardling Wrestlers Hold Opponents Scoreless--- So Far | 2/11/1953 | See Source »

Young John Landy Drew the No.1 lane for tomorrow's say at the four minute mile but he was concerned about another needed break the weather...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: National Sports | 1/24/1953 | See Source »

...LANE FAISON...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 19, 1953 | 1/19/1953 | See Source »

Running on a Melbourne track deadened by heavy rain, and staying in an outside lane to avoid the worst of the puddles, Landy reeled off quarters of 59.2, 61.8, 62.0 and 59.1. His time, after running an estimated ten yards extra: 4:02.1, the second-best time ever recorded. That extra ten yards brought Landy to within five yards of the four-minute performance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Four-Minute Mile | 12/29/1952 | See Source »

...summer weekends, the professor loads his family into a Trinidad red suburban and heads for Buzzard's Bay on Cape Cod. While keeping an eye out for lane-roving Massachusetts drivers, he sings a rumbling bass in quartet harmony with his wife and two older children...

Author: By Byron R. Wifn, | Title: So Little Time | 12/16/1952 | See Source »

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