Word: stopwatch
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...crowd glued its eyes to the huge seconds clock at the end of the stadium. After five laps, Norman Bright, accepted U. S. record holder, last of the field to try to keep up with the leader, dropped back and it was a race between Lash and the stopwatch...
...Stiffly at attention Rear Admiral Bailey laid his sword on the President's desk and crisply conducted his own defense. Amusing highlight in the court martial was a small midshipman, pink with embarrassment at testifying before so much gold lace. According to this humble snotty's stopwatch the Renown had been given plenty of time to change her course safely...
...tuna in British waters after a 6-hour struggle. As enthusiastic about sailing as her husband, Mrs. Sopwith will be the first woman ever to help man a boat in an America's Cup race. Her job will be time keeper. At the start, with a stopwatch in each hand, she will let her husband know how many seconds he has before Endeavour can cross the line. Says she: "If our teamwork is perfect we should hit the starting line at full speed just as the gun flashes. . . . Yes, you may be sure I won't wear trousers. ... I watch...
...Thomas Charles Poulter, on leave from Iowa Wesleyan College, has had a crew of men recording meteors. Four men sit hour after hour inside a glass dome mounted in the roof of a shack. When one spies a falling star he barks "Time!" and a recorder with a stopwatch makes an entry of the hour, minute and second. So steadily and frequently were meteors recorded that Dr. Poulter last week estimated some 1,000,000,000 must fall into the whole of Earth's atmosphere every 24 hours. Previous astronomical estimates put the probable number at about...
...much of a success: in almost every race, runners broke Olympic records. This was not entirely because the runners at Los Angeles last week were faster than those at Amsterdam in 1928 or at Paris in 1924. It was not due to timing, done by a combined camera and stopwatch operated by electricity, switched on by the starting gun and stopped by the breaking of the tape. It was partly due to the track in the Los Angeles Coliseum. Five years ago a Los Angeles hurdler named Kelly, practicing on a disused trotting track near Los Angeles, found the surface...