cardinal points

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We had visited the tiny playground here years ago but usually bypassed this area for the charms of nearby Parc Montsouris, one of four 19th-century public parks created by Baron Haussmann at the cardinal points of the compass around Paris.

From Washington Post

In this story from 1951, club pro Buck White shows off what golf instruction of the day interpreted to be the five "cardinal points" of the golf swing.

From Golf Digest

But unlike Young — who is always working like a dog in his jam-zone, always questing toward some impossible horizon — Vile jams without direction on “Pretty Daze,” soloing with no cardinal points, evading conclusions.

From Washington Post

Mr. Colli, who comes from a long line of Yucatán shamans from the village of X-pichil, addresses the four cardinal points of the universe, asks permission to bless the couple and seals the union by strewing flower petals across the waves.

From New York Times

Twelve small speakers were now mounted at cardinal points around the wall—four at ear level, another four halfway up, and a third set close to the ceiling—along with two speakers in the grain chute.

From The New Yorker