Word: bracket
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Does a generation which planes on water and in the air want the same gliding swiftness, the same fluid smoothness in land transportation?" Hudson's answer was a new car called the Essex Terraplane, on which a mammoth sales drive is centred this week. In the lowest price bracket the Terraplane boasts unusually high power to weight ratio. To Arthur Kudner of Erwin, Wasey Advertising Agency goes credit for the car's name. It has six cylinders, body & chassis as one structural unit, rubber engine-mounting, instrument panel directly in front of the driver. Reported price...
Since minimum fares are fixed by the Atlantic Conference on a basis of speed, not size, the Champlain's $145 minimum cabin-class fare was challenged last week, shipmen contending that because of her greater speed she will have to be placed in a special cabin-class bracket with slightly higher fare. Similarly when the German speed ships were introduced their first-class fares were forced above the "No. 1" bracket of first-class liners into an especially created "A" bracket. On her maiden voyage the Champlain averaged 19½ knots, but like the Bremen and Europa has speed...
Supplying a needed polishing to the 'scutcheon' of the University team fencers, R. B. Lawson '32 and H. P. Walker '33 came in first in the sabre matches yesterday, with six and five points respectively. J. F. Varian 3L, a newcomer, captured four bouts to qualify for the final bracket. Hurd displayed his versatility by qualifying in the sabre with three points; this puts him in the final frame of all three divisions...
...Roger F. Turner of Boston and Maribel Y. Vinson, 19, Radcliffe junior: respectively the national ice skating championship and the women's championship, each for the fifth successive year, at Manhattan's Ice Club. Following a flawless execution of the "school figures" (loop-change-loop, counter, bracket-change-bracket) Miss Vinson clinched her victory with a brilliant display of free-skating...
...Sykes '33, 7-5, 6-2, while Sorensen advanced with victories over J. T. Foster '33, 6-4, 6-4; and J. C. Camphell '33, 7-5, 6-3, R. A. Cooley '32 will be a semi-finalist in the lower bracket; he downed R. L. Riley '33, 6-1, 7-5; and H. L. McClung '32, 6-1, 6-1. In a quarter-final match R. H. Woodward, Jr. '32, will face the winner of a match between J. G. Gherry '33 and E. E. Mitchell...