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Word: grater (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ford will have new bumpers and fenders, more pronounced fins, round instead of oval tail lights. The grille is new to avoid last year's cheese-grater effect. The new Ford look: "quiet refinement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The New Cars | 8/25/1958 | See Source »

...symphonic" organists (he died at the console in 1937) founded by César Frank. The music is pretentious and harmonically shifty but has a faded fascination. It is played on the wonderful organ that Vierne played for 37 years, in Notre Dame Cathedral ; its stops range from cheese-grater harshness to buttery smoothness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Classical Records | 7/2/1956 | See Source »

...slightly elliptical orbits around the earth. They would scatter widely, then concentrate again. Each time the damaged satellite circled the earth, it would run into the cloud of particles at the same point in its orbit, get 8,000 more hits, and soon begin to look like a cheese grater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Satellite Countermeasures | 5/3/1954 | See Source »

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