Word: frame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...motion into a series of split-second visual pictures-out of two tongue depressors, the flat top of a tin can, a woman's dress snap and a piece of baling wire. A way of demonstrating wave mechanics was developed by shining an automobile taillight through a window frame of agitated water and thus projecting the wave motions on a paper screen...
...seat precariously bolted to the frame...
CHEVROLET will be 5 in. longer, 3 in. lower (but still 1.5 in. higher than Chrysler's 1957 Plymouth), will get a new body and frame, a smoother-riding rear suspension and a bigger engine. One big styling change: new heavy tail fins, which jut out at a 45° angle...
...horsepower, revised grilles and molding sweeps, all models from Plymouth through Imperial will be virtually unchanged, allowing the company to concentrate on higher production, better distribution and quality control to eliminate the one serious complaint of 1957: lack of structural rigidity, which engineers hope to solve by strengthening the frame...
Michael Lewis' performance as the Duke of Kent, Edward's brother, was well-done, of course. I do think he was a bit poorly cast for the part, for one cannot help comparing his huge frame and towering figure with the quite smaller proportions of his kingly brother and wondering about their parentage...