Word: lane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BARBADOS. This island, where many British sun worshipers have built winter houses, is the latest focal point of the international set. And the latest focal point of Barbados is Sandy Lane, a hotel built two years ago by English-born Manhattan Socialite Ronald Tree, whose wife, Marietta, is U.S. Representative to the U.N. Human Rights Commission. There is nothing sandy about Sandy Lane; Millionaire Tree, who has built a handsome Palladian house in Barbados, spared no expense in building and furnishing his hotel. Jet-setters have been flocking there; its 100 beds are currently booked through mid-March...
...mentions that Hanover St. in Baltimore, Md., where he worked before coming to Cambridge, is of the same width as the local thoroughfare, yet handles 5000 cars on hour, compared with Mass. Ave's present 1500. Hanover St. has five lanes, and the direction of traffic in the center lane is indicated by lights and is switched automatically as necessary...
...proposed parking restrictions would prohibit all stopping during rush hours. The lane next to the curb can be restricted to buses and cars about to make right turns. "Where bus lane regulations are properly enforced," claims Rudolph, "both buses and traffic move faster...
Brown studied at Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati, spent twelve years as a pastor in Ripon, Wis., Oak Park, Ill., and Portland, Ore., before his election in 1895 as administrative secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions. "A divided church cannot save the world," Brown said, and with that in mind he helped organize one of the landmark events of 20th century Christian history: the Ecumenical Missionary Conference of 1900, which took the first major step toward ending the wasteful competition of church missions...
...land where brewing a cuppa is almost as inflexible a ritual as the opening of Parliament. Brooke Bond is properly attentive to tradition. Its agents regularly attend the tea auctions in London's Mincing Lane and make their bids with time-honored cries of "I want some" and "Am I in it?" But Brooke Bond is also in it with the 20th century. Its tea-drinking chimpanzees are as familiar on British TV as Speedy Alka-Seltzer is in the U.S., and last fall, to win the allegiance of future housewives, the company sponsored a national Twist contest. Between...