Word: grier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...taxi driver can win on a straightaway like Daytona Beach," says he. "At Sebring, the drivers who nurse their cars carefully through the long grind stand a chance of scoring simply because they have finished." With Wacky Arnolt himself, John Panks, general manager of Rootes Motors, Inc., and Bob Grier, president of the Motor Sports Club of America, to fill out his team, René has high hopes that all his Arnolt-Bristols will finish...
...picture was taken with a special camera made by Edgerton, Germeshausen & Grier, Inc. of Boston. Its shutter has no moving parts, only two sheets of polarizing material, something like the stuff in the glasses that are used to view 3-D movies. When light passes through the first of them, it is polarized so that its waves vibrate in a single direction. Then it cannot pass through the second sheet, whose plane of polarization is set at right angles to that of the first sheet. In this condition the shutter is closed...
...term steamroller was applied in U.S. politics in 1912, when President William Howard Taft, with organization support much like his son has in 1952, rolled over ex-President Theodore Roosevelt in the Republican National Convention at Chicago. As the Taft machine crunched ahead, Clark Grier, a Roosevelt delegate from Georgia, rose and shouted: "The steamroller is exceeding the speed limit...