Word: lows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...architects busy designing picturesque Queen Anne-style houses and neoclassic copies, Wright lopped off gables and pillars with a stroke of his pencil, created his own prairie houses. He flattened the roof to parallel the earth line, projected eaves to enforce the sense of shelter. Taking the fireplace and low. massive chimney as a central pivot. Wright began to project exuberant wings, bring balconies into living rooms, replace the dark corners with glass...
Women drivers copped first place in two of the six classifications. Stunt Driver Patricia Jones drove her Dodge Coronet to victory in the Low Medium-Price Class; Hollywood Secretary Mary Hauser zipped her Chevrolet Biscayne into top honors in the Low-Price, 6-Cylinder Class. Only a broken tie rod and penalty for lost time while she repaired it kept Restaurant Owner Mary Davis of Hollywood, in a Plymouth Belvedere, from winning first place in a third class. (She placed second.) In 13 individual races, in which men and women raced against each other and drove identical makes and models...
...Low-Price, 6-Cylindef: Chevrolet Biscayne, 22.3788 m.p.g.; Chevrolet Biscayne, 21.9439 m.p.g.; Ford Custom 300, 20.3288 m.p.g...
...Low-Price, 8-Cylinder: Plymouth Belvedere, 21.1544 m-p-g-; Plymouth Belvedere, 20.9880 m.p.g.; Ford Custom 300, 19.6698 m.p.g...
...Low Medium-Price: Dodge Coronet, 21.7454 m-p-g-; Dodge Coronet, 21.0164 m.p.g.; Chrysler Windsor, 19.6454 m.p.g...