Word: lanes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Floyd Wilson expects the recently adopted basketball rules changes to improve the game next year, and be helped by at least one of the changes. "The 12-foot lane should help equalize the advantage now held by the very big player. It will give Harvard a chance in a let of games we would otherwise have been sure to lose," he said yesterday...
...Basketball rules committee last week widened the foul lane from six to twelve feet and changed the foul shot rule so that the "one and one" rule, which gives a player an extra shot if he makes his first free throw, will apply for the entire 40 minute. Fouls in the last three minutes have been penalized with two foul shots during the past the past two seasons...
Hawkins did a 2:19.6 in his butterfly time trial as compared to Bumpy Jones of Michigan's 2:17 flat. He had his eye on Jones in the next lane to him in the final and beat him, but he couldn't see one lane beyond to North Carolina's Phil Drake, who cut his 2.21 trial time down to 2:13.7 and won the event. Dave Armstrong of Yale finished sixth...
...Sequel. Not until two years later (January 1947) did the provisional Polish government recognized by the Big Three hold its elections. They were rigged to insure Communist control. Washington and London denounced them and U.S. Ambassador Arthur Bliss Lane resigned in protest over them. Mikolajczyk, who was allowed no effective voice in the provisional government or in the elections, was forced to flee abroad for safety...
...gets a blue ribbon, and goes to college, too, and dates her boy friend on the next farm. They go to dances together, and they eat hot dogs and drink Cokes at football games and, on some moonlight night in autumn, while parked for a spell in the lane, he pops the eternal question...