Word: clocking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...President's chair is a wicker-backed swiveller. A Presidential nod seats the Job-Seeker in a green leather armchair, edged close to the desk. He begins his earnest plea. . . . The Presidential eye reverts occasionally to an ornate gilt clock under glass upon the mantel. Every tick is treasured. The Job-Seeker rises...
...Angeles, Calif., the Bureau of Power & Light announced last month: "Our residential light curves begin to drop at 9 o'clock at this season of the year, and from 9 to 11 the drop is swift and steady. Before 12 o'clock practically all of Los Angeles is asleep...
...weekly sessions over a period of months. Five Generals and a Commander-in-Chief play simultaneously on each side. The Commander-in-Chief walks back and forth behind his subordinates, surveying the entire field of action, and issues sealed orders on printed forms at half-day intervals. An electric clock rings a gong every 15 minutes, which is the equivalent of the half-day period. Mr. Geddes is one commander. Famed Chess-Player Edward Lasker is the other...
...peak of the local indoor polo season will be reached tonight when the Harvard and Yale riders meet, in the final game of the series at the Commonwealth Armory, Boston. The game is scheduled to begin at 7.45 o'clock and the four 7 1-2 minute chukkers will be played off as rapidly as possible, so that the event will not conflict with the hockey game, later in the evening...
...Wednesday evening, at 8.15 o'clock, the fourth concert in Mr. Arthur Whipping's series of Expositions of Chamber Music for 1928-1929 will be given in the John Knowles Paine Concert Hall of the Music Building on Kirkland Street. This concert will be open free of charge, to officers and students of the University...