Word: lined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...routes from the British Columbia coasts with cargoes of furs for China, Britain and the U.S. Pelts were only the beginning. The cry "gold" brought a clamoring horde of adventurers sweeping north from the U.S. to mining camps along the Fraser in the 1850s. By 1885, when a rail line stitched British Columbia to the rest of Canada, the province was already...
...major pipelines, newsprint mills and hydroelectric projects tapered off last year; markets softened for lead, zinc and aluminum. Yet, typically, British Columbians spoke of the recession as "the poorest boom in years." The province's salmon fishermen had their best season in decades, and farmers, loggers and production-line workers were making-and spending-enough to keep income and retail sales at record levels...
...used to quake in the night for fear that I had made an error." One of his colleagues, he recalled, was so sure that cancer was an unfathomable mystery that he said: "That can't have been a tumor if you found the cause of it." Today no line of investigation into the origins of human cancer is being pressed more vigorously than that implicating viruses as at least partly responsible. Though he has never worked with human cancers, and was technically "retired" for age 14 years ago, Peyton Rous still has the same staff, works as hard...
...narrowly escaped death. In 1948 his car went off the road in the Grand Prix of South America, killing his partner. In 1952 he broke his neck in a race at Monza, Italy. But Fangio developed the delicate sense of touch that enabled him to tread the fine line between the speed that wins and the speed that kills...
...game, Harvard also shut out Dartmouth, to remain undefeated. After runs by Frank Crossen and Ted Marmor had brought the ball to the Dartmouth one-yard line, Steve Cohen went over for the touchdown. Cohen also made the conversion...