cylinder

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It’s firing on all cylinders with same-store sales growth vastly better than at old rival Target and most other competitors.

From The Wall Street Journal

Car and Driver magazine said of the rare six-cylinder, “it takes on the characteristic Ferrari sounds despite having only half the number of cylinders.”

From The Wall Street Journal

In the home, a rich family might have one of the new phonographs that played music stored on wax cylinders, but most families were still making their own music, using sheet music or songbooks.

From The Wall Street Journal

The first recordings were made on metal cylinders.

From The Wall Street Journal

But on another level, the market’s broadening out is a hopeful sign: A healthy bull market fires on all cylinders rather than just a few.

From MarketWatch