Word: grid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outdoors for the blessing of a special new shrine for motorists. The shrine is a chromium-plated Cadillac radiator frame set in a rock garden. A chromium-plated cross surmounts the radiator-cap and a St. Christo pher medal supplants the Cadillac insignia. A bulletin board replaces the radiator grid...
...HENRY MORGAN-W. Adolphe Roberts-Covici, Friede ($3). Buccaneers were originally harmless Caribbean creatures, so named from their hunter's trade of smoking meat on a boucan (grid), but that was before Henry Morgan became their Admiral-in-Chief. By that time (1667) they had found other, more dangerous fish to fry; some of them were no better than pirates. In Morgan's early career he was not much better himself: he served a bloody apprenticeship against the Spaniards in Hispaniola and Granada, quitted himself so like a buccaneer that he was elected Admiral. Jamaica's Governor...
...Imported fuel oil, lubricating oil. gas oil and kerosene will pay another penny, bringing the tax to 9d a gallon. Here was a tax that touched every thatched cottage, for despite the growing grid of high tension lines in Britain, the average rural house is still lamplit...
Freshmen who do not attend the Yale game will have a chance to gain a visual impression of the plays as they occur form an electric Grid-o-Graph which will be installed in the lower common room of the Union. The apparatus consists of a large screen upon which the course of the ball, the numbers of the players, and the play used in represented by electric lights flashing...
...Grid-o-Graph is already owned by the Union and an experienced operator is being procured by the 1936 Union Committee to take charge of it. A radio will be placed in the lower common room in conjunction with the machine, so both a visual and aural play-by-play story of the game will be available...