Word: clocks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Matter of Minutes. Royall summoned Johnston and his colleagues, the firemen's David Robertson and the switchmen's A. J. Glover, to a last-minute conference at the Pentagon. It, too, was fruitless. Five o'clock passed and the strike order still stood. Then Royall and Assistant Attorney General H. Graham Morison hurried off to Federal Judge T. Alan Goldsborough, who had agreed to stand by in his chambers. Just three weeks ago, Judge Goldsborough had slapped fines of $1,420,000 on John L. Lewis and the U.M.W. It took him only a few minutes...
...been the master influence." To learn all there was to know about Browning, he often stayed at his books until 3 a.m., got up again at 6. But at midnight Saturday he knocked off; his Congregationalist mother had taught him that Sunday was a day of rest. When the clock struck midnight again on Sunday, he often went back to his books...
Last week at a quiet ceremony, Joseph Armstrong laid the cornerstone of his new building. Into it will go the letters Browning exchanged with Florence Nightingale, Leigh Hunt, Benjamin Jowett. There will be Browning's clock, snuffbox, diary, account books, first editions of all his works, the portfolio he held in his lap when he wrote. Only one of Armstrong's treasures will not be there-Browning's ring, which Joseph Armstrong wears himself and absentmindedly twists when talking...
...horses every morning), Davison would never tell him simply to "breeze this horse a half mile with a nice snug hold." Instead, he would tell him to work the half in 50 seconds?and he meant neither one second more nor one second less. Eddie learned to have a clock in his head." In New Orleans in 1933?the year Brokers Tip won the Derby?a "bug boy"* named Arcaro began to get into print. He was top rider at the meeting, with 43 wins...
Slowdown. The clock that keeps running in Arcaro's head really rang the bell four years ago in the Manhattan Handicap. Arcaro was on Devil Diver, a speed horse. Everybody, including the other jockeys, expected him to set a fast pace, and then collapse long before the mile and a half had been run. Arcaro knew how slow he was going; the others didn't and hung back too. The time for the first mile was incredibly slow. When Arcaro finally let Devil Diver run, he outsprinted the others, winning by 1½ lengths...