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Word: lane (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scarcely looks like a pillar of academe. Crammed into six dowdy buildings on a narrow lane hard by the Strand, it has no spacious lawns or gracious halls. But the intellectual life of the London School of Economics has never been cramped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: L.S.E.'s Bold New Head | 10/8/1973 | See Source »

...grandson. She sends $4.49 plus postage and handling and fills in a computer card. The kid's name, street number and birth date, and the name of his sister, brother, dog, cat (or other pet) and friend. Let's say Tommy Snooks of 123 Hickory Stick Lane, with Sister Bunny, Brother Spiro, Dog Tuggles, Cat Snuggles, etc. Eventually, from Dart Industries, Inc., which, as the card says, "also brings you Tupperware, Rexall, Vanda Beauty Counselor and West Bend brand family products," comes a book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: And Now Me-Books | 10/8/1973 | See Source »

...team this weekend, as the Harvard sailors came out of three trophy events with a pair of seconds and a very solid first. The Crimson yesterday took the Wood trophy in convincing style and Saturday placed what Horn called "encouraging" seconds in the Big Three Trophy and the Lane Trophy...

Author: By William E. Stedman jr., | Title: Sailors Sweep Wood Trophy, Snag Seconds at Yale, Tufts | 10/1/1973 | See Source »

...City, Ariz., has drawn 28,000 residents (average age: 67) to a tract 16 miles northwest of Phoenix. It has enough athletic and recreation facilities to train an Olympic team: seven golf courses, four tennis courts, six lawn-bowling greens, a 16-lane bowling alley, Arizona's first indoor, air-conditioned shuffleboard courts, two artificial lakes and a 7,500-seat amphitheater for plays and concerts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: The New American Land Rush | 10/1/1973 | See Source »

Reaching passenger gates should be easy via a ten-lane, 55-m.p.h. spinal highway between the two rows of superterminals (the four now operating will become 13 by 2001). DFW Executive Director Thomas Sullivan, who oversaw the building of La Guardia, Newark and J.F.K. airports, chose a simple semicircular terminal design that allows passengers to drive directly to one of 66 gates, which are all within 120 ft. of the airplanes. Older terminal designs, which often park airplanes at the ends of long "fingers," may entail hikes of as much as a quarter-mile from counter to plane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Airport for 2001 | 9/24/1973 | See Source »

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