For 1937 Cadillac made the LaSalle its own again, giving it the Monobloc V8 of the Series 60, nice new styling, a lower price range and a heavy promotion campaign emphasizing that the car was completely Cadillac built.

Under the hood was the new ( less expensive ) Monobloc V8.

The next year, displacement on all Monobloc Cadillacs was.

The Series 70 and 75 were powered by the new Monobloc V8, This 135 hp ( 101 kW ) engine was both less expensive and more powerful, and the stylish body by Fleetwood should have made the Series 70 and 75 an instant hit.

* 1559 – Taqi al-Din invents a six-cylinder ' Monobloc ' pump, a hydropowered water-raising machine incorporating valves, suction and delivery pipes, piston rods with lead weights, trip levers with pin joints, and cams on the axle of a water-driven scoop-wheel

Examples include the Dresch 500 cc Monobloc and the Sunbeam S7 and S8.

In Draw poker, one also hears the terms " 12-way " or " 16-way " straight draw for hands such as < font color = red > 6 ♥ 7 ♥</ font > < font color = black > 8 ♠ ( Joker )</ font >, in which any of sixteen cards ( 4 fours, 4 fives, 4 nines, 4 tens ) can fill a straight.

Coxless fours ( 4 -) are often referred to as straight fours, and are commonly used by lightweight and elite crews and are raced at the Olympics.

Before the First World War it was not uncommon for loose horses to continue straight ahead after the jump and end up in the Leeds and Liverpool Canal itself.

While straight news stories always stay in third person point of view, it's not uncommon for a feature article to slip into first person.

This type of incident is very uncommon as the nose oleo struts are designed with centering cams to hold the nosewheels straight until they are compressed by the weight of the aircraft.

Older strip malls tend to have plain architecture with the stores arranged in a straight row, though L-shaped configurations are not uncommon.

Although quite often shaped like a cuboid, it is not uncommon to find cartons lacking right angles and straight edges, as in squrounds used for ice cream.

Soldiers entering an MPAD from AIT as junior enlisted can go straight to E-5 with time and rank, which is uncommon in most units.

Setting a course straight for the house, he was covering ground fast when an angry bee buzzed past close to his face.

Now Hans had given Ma something of his -- we both had when we thought she was going straight to Pa -- something valuable ; ;

They should be as straight as possible, as this will effect their ability to mesh properly when the walls are erected.

Missail is the straight man, not very talkative, mild-mannered when he does speak.

`` Mixed herd '' meant a herd of mixed sexes, while a `` straight steer herd '' was one composed entirely of steers, and when the cowman spoke of `` mixed cattle '', he meant cattle of various grades, ages, and sexes.

I couldn't see him, but the electric bugging device gave steady beeps when it was straight ahead, short half beeps when the car I was following was to the left, and long drawn-out beeps when it turned to the right.

But when tiny, 145-pound Albert Gregory Pearson of the Los Angeles Angels, who once caught three straight fly balls in center field because, as a teammate explained, `` the other team thought no one was out there '', hits seven home runs in four months ( three more than his total in 1958, 1959, and 1960 ), his achievement borders on the ridiculous.

That is, when Mr. Milstein thrust straight to the core of the music, sparks flying, bow shredding, violin singing, glittering and sometimes spitting, Mr. Hendl could go along.

And when they stood by the fountain in the piazza looking at Santa Maria he had to keep a straight face, not letting on he had been there with Alberto.

Remember, when the little hand is straight up that's negative.

Such a beam must come " straight " to the observer along a line which connects the observer with the position of the object when it emitted the light.

The fired bubbles travel in straight lines ( possibly bouncing off the side walls of the arena ), stopping when they touch other bubbles or reach the top of the arena.

The straight column under load is in stable equilibrium if a lateral force, applied between the two ends of the column, produces a small lateral deflection which disappears and the column returns to its straight form when the lateral force is removed.

If the column load is gradually increased, a condition is reached in which the straight form of equilibrium becomes so-called neutral equilibrium, and a small lateral force will produce a deflection that does not disappear and the column remains in this slightly bent form when the lateral force is removed.

Like a wave, cathode rays travel in straight lines, and produce a shadow when obstructed by object.

This project was finished in 2001 when, after the track was redesigned to a long circuit and a new pits building was realized ( by HPG, the development company of John Hugenholtz jr, son of the former director ), a new grandstand was situated along the long straight.

The simplest case is when y is a linear function of x, meaning that the graph of y divided by x is a straight line.

" Poll " is an archaic legal term referring to documents with straight edges ; these distinguished a deed binding only one person from one affecting more than a single person ( an " indenture ", so named during the time when such agreements would be written out repeatedly on a single sheet, then the copies separated by being irregularly torn or cut, i. e. " indented ", so that each party had a document with corresponding tears, to discourage forgery ).

That three game sweep was Dallas ' first over any opponent and the longest against the Eagles since 1992 – 1995 when Dallas won seven straight matches against Philadelphia.

and the moment of inertia is larger when the body has an increased radius, the speed of rotation may be increased by moving the body into a compact shape, and reduced by opening out into a straight position.

Supplementary angles are formed when one or more rays share the same vertex and are pointed in a direction that in between the two original rays that form the straight angle ( 180 degrees ).

" A " line " in Euclid could be either straight or curved, and he used the more specific term " straight line " when necessary.

Ford also played straight dramatic roles, including an adulterous husband in both Presumed Innocent ( 1990 ) and What Lies Beneath ( 2000 ), and a recovering amnesiac in Mike Nichols ' Regarding Henry ( 1991 ).

It was powered by a 2. 6 L Ford straight six from the Ford Zephyr / Ford Zodiac.

There was something of the style of the early Ford Thunderbird at the front, with a tasteful egg-crate grille ; a long, curving hood ; and straight fenders to the headlights.

The Falcon XR won the Wheels Car of the Year award in 1966, giving Ford Falcon two straight wins.

In 1969 the plywood chassis was replaced by steel, which shortened production time and allowed use of more powerful 6-cylinder engines, with a choice of, 3-litre Ford Essex V6 engine ( UK ),, 3-litre Volvo straight 6 or more rarely the Triumph 2. 5-litre straight 6.

The Yeomanry brigade moved off at 02: 03 accompanied by six Ford motor cars of the 7th Light Car Patrol in support, less two troops of the Worcestershire Yeomanry, at Sheikh Zowaiid protecting the ammunition, continued along the old El Arish to Rafa caravan road straight to Rafa.

He was offered a job at Ford straight out of college, but at the same time, he was offered a fellowship for a graduate degree at Princeton University.

For seven straight years ( 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011 ), Cheek was named among the ten finalists for the Ford C. Frick Award by the Baseball Hall of Fame.

In 1976, Bolam made a return to straight drama as Jack Ford in the BBC Television series When the Boat Comes In, which ran until 1981.

Realizing she lacks the forces needed to defeat this enemy force in a straight fight, Laurana takes her army to Margaard Ford along the Vingaard River.

A 4. 2 L (/ 4195 cc ) version of the Essex V6 appeared in the 1997 model year as a replacement for the durable, but aging, Ford 300 straight six in the F-150.

In this construction, the circles that are tangent to one of the two straight lines form a family of Ford circles.

This model was also the last to be fitted with a ' kink ' in the front bumper before the simpler straight bumpers were introduced on the Ford Anglia ( E04A ).

It was a 1-2 success for the Tyrrells on a tricky circuit, the Ford engine providing extra power down the very long Mistral straight.

The Ford Motor Company of America continued producing straight six engines until they were replaced in the mid-1990s by more compact V6 designs.

Ford factory sports car driver Ken Miles was killed there in a testing accident in August 1966 when his Ford sports car prototype ( known as the J-car ) became aerodynamically unstable and flew out of control at the end of the back straight.

With a smaller Bronco and fuel economy in mind, Ford offered a straight six as the base engine.

Phillies starter Bob Miller matched up against rookie Whitey Ford, making his first World Series appearance, as the Yankees tried to wrap up the Series in four straight.

By the mid-1920s, both were common, and the straight sixes of General Motors ( along with other features that differentiated GM's various makes and models from the Model T ) were prying market share away from Ford.