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Word: laning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Coat for Cumshaw. But the ultimate protest did not take place in the Assembly Hall. It worked itself out in a cheap hotel in a grubby lane of Nanking's crowded red-light district (nicknamed "Confucius' Temple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Sorrow for Old Chiang | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

Long before he won his fame, Wedgwood had been turning out cream-colored pottery by hand, and calling it simply "Useful Ware" (sometimes he had it decorated by a Widow Warburton who lived in Hot Lane). It was just about as practical and clean-lined as anything anyone has accomplished since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Potter to the Queen | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

Died. Dr. Alfred Church Lane, 85, bearded onetime Tufts College geologist (1909-36), who in 1932 announced his results in measuring the age of the earth by the decomposition of uranium minerals, thus helped establish its now accepted age of two billion years; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 26, 1948 | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

...thrown into the street; you can't beat a carpet or tie a horse to a tree on any public ground. Even gambling is covered by these ancient rules. No person, according to one ordinance, may expose a gaming table of any kind in any lane, alley, or street...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Thou Shalt Not . . .' | 4/23/1948 | See Source »

...four-lane concrete Autobahn roughly paralleling the railway, a new control point for all vehicles would be set up at Nowawes, on the outskirts of Berlin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: We Will Sit Tight | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

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