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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 »

...constitution was approved by a vote of 346 to 82. A total of 558 seniors cast ballets either in person at the Houses or by mail. Final count for the position of Ivy Grater could not be tallied until some time today, William D. Weeks '49, secretary of the Permanent Class Committee, said last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seniors Choose 14 Officers For Class Day Committee | 3/16/1949 | See Source »

...seven years of grater-voiced Bernard Samuel's regime as mayor, things have been quiet. There were mutterings but no major scandals. Then last fall city employees raised a clamor for a wage boost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PENNSYLVANIA: Chasing Pigeons | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

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