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Martinsville gives grandfather clocks to its NASCAR Cup winners.
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Randy Covitz, Kansas City Star, 24 Jan. 2024
From a snowman on skis to a grandfather clock that feels stolen from a scene in The Nutcracker, anyone will enjoy building miniature worlds that match the festivities happening around them.
—Melissa Epifano, EW.com, 9 Sep. 2023
The doorman still ushers guests into the grand, three-story lobby, where the famous grandfather clock has been chiming since the hotel opened.
—Katie Lockhart, Travel + Leisure, 26 Nov. 2023
Placed over the light source, the Fresnel lens often rested on a clockwork mechanism hung with weights, like those of a gigantic grandfather clock.
—Dorothy Wickenden, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2023
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Randy Covitz, Kansas City Star, 24 Jan. 2024
From a snowman on skis to a grandfather clock that feels stolen from a scene in The Nutcracker, anyone will enjoy building miniature worlds that match the festivities happening around them.
—Melissa Epifano, EW.com, 9 Sep. 2023
The doorman still ushers guests into the grand, three-story lobby, where the famous grandfather clock has been chiming since the hotel opened.
—Katie Lockhart, Travel + Leisure, 26 Nov. 2023
Placed over the light source, the Fresnel lens often rested on a clockwork mechanism hung with weights, like those of a gigantic grandfather clock.
—Dorothy Wickenden, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2023
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This sunrise alarm clock gently rouses sleepers by mimicking the glow of dawn.Malia Griggs, Glamour, 25 Oct. 2024
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The top has a large, semi-translucent dial that evokes the big bells on top of classic alarm clocks.PCMAG, PCMAG, 17 Oct. 2024
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Besides the fact that Eldridge spent all of nine games at Double-A, there’s no reason to get a head start on his service time clock while occupying a 40-man spot that could be used to protect another prospect from the Rule 5 draft this winter.Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 14 Sep. 2024
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The main thing that sets this revival apart from past revivals (besides Marianne Elliott’s consummate directing), is the gender switch from Bobby, a swinging sixties bachelor, to Bobbie, a less-swinging single whose biological time clock is getting louder.Jordan Riefe, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 July 2024
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Optical atomic clocks, accurate to picoseconds, will enable satellite constellations and ground stations to determine satellites’ locations with centimeter-level precision—avoiding potentially catastrophic in-orbit collisions.Paul Lipman, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024
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In addition to housing famous politicians, 1 Observatory Circle is also home to a relic of history: the atomic clock, the most precise time scale in the world.Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 1 Oct. 2024
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At each location there will be around five dozen vendors who come from all over Europe as well as Illinois, and this is the place to buy real cuckoo clocks form the Black Forest.Larry Olmsted, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
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Walsh also discovered whether Welles actually wrote the famous cuckoo clock speech Lime gives to Martins on the ferris wheel.Gregory James Wakeman, IndieWire, 11 Oct. 2024
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“Grandfather clock.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grandfather%20clock. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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