Word: stopwatched
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...official results have not yet been released, pending comparison between stopwatch times and the photo-timer results. Also, the sweepstakes point championship, which Harvard won last year with three firsts, has not yet been awarded...
There was even a sharp visual contrast between the two. Tuppeny in his blue blazer with the "U of P" in red on the pocket, stopwatch in hand. The technician. Authoritarian, McCurdy stood next to him in his grey sweatsuit, sweating. He had a beard on his face. For a Harvard fan, the contrast was easily categorized. They were crew coaches Joe Burk and Harry Parker, or even the scheming Lex Luther and Superman, who stood for truth, justice, and maybe even the American...
That is precisely the spirit that the first of the stopwatch-toting efficiency experts, Frederick Winslow Taylor, condemned in 1911 as "the greatest evil with which the working people are now afflicted." In a yard where laborers were loading 12½ tons of pig iron each aboard flatcars every day, he taught one worker named Schmidt to load 47½ tons by changing the movements he used to lift the 92-lb. bars and the speed at which he walked to the flatcar.* Taylor's ideas were expanded by Frank Gilbreth, who contended that there must be "one best way" of doing...
...McGrady and Lee Evans to defeat him. In the longer distances, Doubell has been unbeatable. In Albuquerque last month he ran 1,000 yds. in 2 min. 5.5 sec., shaving half a second from Snell's eight-year-old world indoor record. As usual he pooh-poohed the stopwatch: "The most important thing is winning. I don't give a damn what the time...
...stopwatch ready, calling for "trucking shots" and "dissolves" like some female Fellini, she directs each film with painstaking care. With a variety of shots, she forces the viewer to follow the camera as it roams with the eye of a connoisseur across a canvas or a Greek façade. To dramatize the relationship of life to art, she has juxtaposed film clips of an Olympic sprinter with photographs of a runner molded in bronze, contrasted bullfight scenes with paintings by Goya and Picasso...