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Word: lanes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hustle seemed to originate in the all-sophomore second line of Dick Fischer, George Higginbottom, and Dave Vietze. Fischer exemplified it when he tallied against West Point, chasing the puck down the right lane, picking it up and outskating the defense to go in clear on the goal...

Author: By Charles Steedman, | Title: Crimson Sextet Wins Holiday Tournament | 1/7/1957 | See Source »

...million body plant and jobs for 3,500. Now Twinsburg has big-city dreams. The town fathers are planning a $600,000 high school and a big shopping center, are putting up a 1,000-unit housing project, a sewage plant, and the state is building a four-lane highway from factory to town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Business, Dec. 31, 1956 | 12/31/1956 | See Source »

...California, for example, the state highway commission has been gouging away at the Santa Monica Mountains near Los Angeles. In places, it is cutting to a depth of 350 ft., and will remove 15 million cubic yards of earth-5,000,000 truckloads-to lay a gently graded four-lane highway 5-3/10 miles through the mountains to Los Angeles. All to cut 1-4/10 miles off the old route across the mountains, and thus, in 1957, save 3¼ minutes in the driving time it takes workers to get to their jobs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Business, Dec. 31, 1956 | 12/31/1956 | See Source »

...started, he confessed, last summer. After his triumphant graduation from Lane Tech, he turned down two fine scholarship offers (U.C.L.A., Hamilton College) because he thought M.I.T. better fitted his talents. Well aware that his parents could not afford to pay the bill (tuition: $1,100 a year), he found a $60-a-week job with Western Electric and began saving his money. Soon he concluded that this job didn't fit his talents either, quit it and tried to land a better-paying one-and failed. Then he had a much brighter idea. "Maybe I wasn't thinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YOUTH: Bright Boy | 12/24/1956 | See Source »

Terrible Task. Hopper himself is habitually as disappointed in his own work as others are enthusiastic. His latest is.a painting of a gas station on a four-lane highway. "I had the idea for it quite a while," he says. "But not so very long, I guess." (The reverse declarative is a Hopper hallmark.) "I didn't think much of it at the start. Still, if you're a painter you have to do something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Silent Witness | 12/24/1956 | See Source »

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