Big Board
Example Sentences
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The darkened space was lit mainly by the Big Board—a massive wall of screens displaying maps plotting the positions of SAC planes and enemy forces.
From Literature
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“We’ll have that game on the big board.”
From Los Angeles Times
“Business finally awoke to the potential of such devices,” writes historian Robert Sobel in “The Big Board: A History of the New York Stock Market.”
While banking and insurance issues had dominated early Wall Street, by 1856, the value of railroad stocks and bonds was greater than everything else combined, according to Sobel in “The Big Board.”
The truth is, luck had nothing to do with it: Larson, played here by Paul Walter Hauser, had memorized the five patterns of seemingly random blinking lights on the Big Board, successfully avoided whammies and took CBS for an unprecedented sum.
From Los Angeles Times
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