Word: clocks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last weekend 2,000 delighted people gathered to watch the best part of all-a high-speed painting job donated by 96 A.F.L. painters. Scaffolding was rigged to give each man just 16 square feet of space to cover. A big timing clock was set up. Bob Hoelzle and his bride-to-be, a pretty telephone operator named Frances Noll, were stationed at a vantage point in the front yard. Then the mayor started the proceedings by firing a pistol...
...three lightweight races were originally scheduled for mid-afternoon, but the severe choppiness of the water in the Charles basin forced postponement. The freshman 'fifties finally raced at 6:45 p.m., while the jayvees and varsity rowed together at 7:15 p.m. in a race too dark to clock or estimate the margin of finish...
Consequently, at ten o'clock Sunday morning, an estimated fifty cyclists will line up at the corner of Chestnut Hill Avenue and Route 9 and race ten and one half miles to Wellesley, where unless planes are clarified rapidly, they will be greeted only by other exhausted riders, and perhaps a song sparrow...
Chuck says that he was scared. He says he is always scared when he flies the X-1, but no one takes him very seriously. Scared or not, he waited, watching the seconds tick round the clock...
...full power), the X-1 slowed down and was back on the other side of sound's great wall. Chuck scavenged the last of the dangerous oxygen and alcohol from the system by flushing it with nitrogen. Then he began the long glide to earth, listening to the clock ticking on the instrument panel. He somehow found this "awful boring," he says, and welcomed his spurt of interest when he landed the X-1 at close to 165 miles an hour and rolled to a stop on Muroc's smooth surface...