Word: stopwatched
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...stopwatch has not been brought into use yet, but daily Individual progress is apparent. Whenever things start looking overly bright, however, Coach Ulen, pulls himself up with sobering thoughts of Athletic Director Bop Kiphuth's powerhouse down in New Haven. By a combination of committee rulings on old unofficial records and some fast driving, Al Stack, Paul Girdes, and Heuber of Yale now possess the Olympic championship record in the medley relay...
Rozsa writes his sound-track scores in a soundproof room at home with a cue sheet of the film script, a stopwatch, and his boxer dog Mowgli beside him. Usually by the time the studios get the script to him, he has only about six weeks to do the entire score. Much of his work sounds like a cut-&-paste job on themes and orchestral effects out of Tchaikovsky, Debussy, Ravel, Shostakovich. Some of his scores (for which he gets $15,000 to $20,000 apiece) have scarcely an original theme in them, are made up largely of a succession...
...target for tonight, tragedy skulks behind the scenes. The gayest rake of the lot (Robert Cummings, an Army flyer in fact as well as fancy) is doomed to die from one of those mysteriously incurable diseases which in filmdom carry off their perfectly healthy victims with stopwatch accuracy at curtain time. Ivy's inevitable wedding steeps all four principals in a maudlin effusion of unspoken nobility aimed at sending the audience out with a lump instead of a laugh in its throat...
Once started, the take-offs had to be run with stopwatch accuracy. At ten-second intervals the tow planes moved in from the sides, gently tautened the line, then poured on power and roared down the runway and off into the sky. By then the day had dawned clear and bright, with a near-perfect ten-mile wind...
This year Hal blessed with perhaps only three "natural" swimmers: Jim Curwen, who can loaf through any free-style race fact enough to make the stopwatch stagger; Art Bosworth, those ideal swimming build enables him to be a sure point-winner in either sprints or backstroke, and Kric Cutler, absent last year, but enough of an expert so that he will probably remain unbeaten this year in any 220 or 440 free-style event he swims...